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The Ledge
May 24, 1900

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The Ledge

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New Denver, B.C. : R.T. Lowery

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1900-05-24

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The Nakusp Ledge was published in Nakusp, in the Central Kootenay region of southeastern British Columbia, from October 1893 to December 1894. The paper was subsequently published as the Ledge both in New Denver, from December 1894 to December 1904, and in Fernie, from January to August 1905. The Ledge was published by Robert Thornton Lowery, a prolific newspaper publisher, editor, and printer who was also widely acclaimed for his skill as a writer. After moving to Fernie, the paper continued to be published under variant titles, including the Fernie Ledger and the District Ledger, from August 1905 to August 1919.

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Volume VII. No U. NEW DENVER, B.C., MAY 24,1900.. Price, $2 00 Year . ����������,.��������-.��. .. , ��� ��� ^ �� �� �� cu ^o ��� # -B^fiv f x fi ��i v i i -aw? rar if *l y m Camp Gossip Concentrated for the Benefit of the jfj _ '��� Paid-Up Subscriber. ���� with the times, and in liarinony with the grandeur of the-seenery piled up in such a lavish man tier around the Lucerne. ��� Nominations will be made in Kaslo on Saturday TbeC.P.R- will have, a new time table on June3. Charley Kapps, of Kaslo, is visiting his mother in Germany. Williams is praying for hot weather He has ice cream for sale. The voters' lists for Slocan riding were printed in Rossland. About 27;") votes will he polled in Kaslo on the nth of June. Chas. Fraas has taken a pack train to the Kettle River country. ,. YV. P. Evans has gone to Windermere to start a newspaper. ,) M. McGregor is surveying* several claims on Four Mile creek. The survey of the Lemon Creek wagon road is being completed. All free miners' licenses must lie re- ��� newed on the 31st of this month. Alex. Stewart will be the landlord at the Victoria in Slocan after July 1st. Mrs. Stirret, formerly of Sandon, has opened a confectionery store in Calgary. Nelson has had a Chinese wedding. Such events never occur in the Slocan. The Silverton Miners' Union will give a pavilion dance in that town this evening. John A. Taylor has purchased the Rashdale ranch and will raise milk on. it next year. Byron N. White will he in New Denver next month, lie is now living in Minneapolis. This paper is $2 a year, strictly in advance. Where credit is given 82 50 will be charged. To-day Silverton is celebrating the Queen's birthday. New Denver will celebrate next year. Service will be held in the Presbyterian church on Sunday at 7:80 p.m. All cordially invited. W. Perdue has been elected president of the Manitoba Law Society. This is not the Billy of Kootenay fame- There is g-reat activity around Sud- burv, Ontario, this spring. Nickle properties have doubled in price. Wm. Thomlinson lias returned from his bivouac, amidst the elevated scenic, surrounding's of Four Mile creek. The upper part of George Garrett's building on Sixth street is being fitted up as a hall for the Miners' Union. I here is a dance in Bosun Hall this evening. As it is for a worthy cause there should be a large attendance. Hermann Clever will assume the management of the meat shops in Silverton and New Denver on June 1st. Business is improving* in the record office. The receipts will be very heavy on the Hist of May. Come early and avoid the rush. Windy Young, who ���made such a splurge at the last election around Slocan City, is now acting as a kind of Canadian emigrant agent for S'umpler, Oregon. Mrs. Kelly and children, who have been staying* at the Slocan hptel since the Sandon fire, returned home, on Tuesday much benefited by the salubrious air of New Denver. Selous, the great explorer and naturalist, died in California a short time ago from the. bite of a tame, snake. Hit- brother, Harold Selous, is one of the oldest, residents of Nelson. Edwards, the Australian salesman, has sailed for - foreign parts. The Slocan easy mark1* can now leave their homes without putting their money under the bed or in the old cook stove. It is now permissible to mention politics on the streets of New Denver. Until the past few days the weather and war monopolized the boards, hut now the Green men are. raising* Kane and the town is feeling- the awakening Keenly. Smith Curtis allowed his eloquence to permeate the ozone of New Denver for a brief spell last Friday afternoon. Me was surprised to find such a large audi once, having been told in Sandon thai the coroner was sitting on this town He wasn't sitting when we dug up -jUI FLOAT 1-MtOM SAMIOX. The relief fund amounts to about ���*?!-, '">''��� Tim Lane.Jiin Latham and Bill Dunn have gone to Cape Nome to operate.a puck train. Frank Sewell has resigned his ollice as city clerk and gone with the Minnesota Silver Co. The political meeting on Saturday evening commenced with a drama and ended with a farce. The new C. P. R. depot will he. more im I losing than the one that ascended into the hea reus not long-ago by the dynamPe route. Tinhorns, boosters, pinkies, chair locators and similar people are hovering' as thick annuid this carbure.tted burg as bees in a California flower garden. A. David is erecting building.���G. M. Spencer has started a restaurant.��� Stein Bros. have, the/r building nearly Completed.���Mrs*. Donaldson will spend the summer in Oreg'on, and Mrs. Jas. WiiHamso"! in Boston. Swan Peterson and Chas. Housen will drill in Kaslo to day.���George Roger is back from Sarnia.���.J. M. Harris is building* a new ollice���The. government will build a school house, and the' Methodists a church.���Mr*. Funk will resume business shortly. Thirty men are working* at the building of the I van hoe mil!.���A tramway to New Denver is badly needed.���Brick and stone buildings should now predominate.���Make a fire limit and save insurance New I'opper Syndicate. XKtt'S OOSSir FKOM XUf,S()\, New York, May l.-.L ���It has just been learned, according- to the Times, that a new consolidation of cupper pn��perti��s is soon to comic into tin; field It will take iivit a number, of .Mexican and ''nited Stales copper mines and lie known primarily as the Pan-American Cnpner Syndicate Company One of ' Bokn���In Nelson, on May IS, the wife of !>. J. Hamilton of a son. Boi!.\.--In Montreal, on May Pi, the wife of Jacob Dover of a son. ., The Fern mine has resumed operations, and about 25 men are now at work. Proctor will undoubtedly become a great s-uinmer resort when the railroad work is completed, as it hasone of the finest fishing grounds brthirprovince. The Balfour entension is fast approaching completion. The grading is expected to be finished in about two months' time, and the trains running* in a month more. The Leo claim will he put in active work again as soon as the snow enables work to be done. A lot of work has been put on this claim already and g*ood results have been obtained. In spite of everything, Nelson goes steadily on. A g-reat. many fine and substantial blocks and dwelling houses are being* erected, and much money is being laid out in improving the streets. Mr. Patenande, the well-known Nelson jeweler, has just returned from his trip in the east, where he has been taking a special course in sight adjusting and studying the entricities of the human eye. He has now one of the best optical and jewelry establishments in the province. The Conservatives in and around Nelson are now crowing over the fact that Justice Drake on Thursdav last CX5 S3 5jjg Annual Meeting of the Company held in Montreal Some Days Ago. a? s 5 JS�� 'i <%SiZK The annual meeting of the Payne Consolidated Mining Company, Limited, was held in Montreal on MaySth, Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Henshaw occupying the chair. The attendance was large and representative. The report of the manager, Mr. C. H. Hand, was read and adopted. Amongst other things Mr. Hand said: "At present we are drawing* our principal ore. supply from the stupes, between levels Nos. o audi: stopes over No. 5 have not yet been opened. The ore product for the months of February and March has been lower grade than usual, mainly because it has come from the western part of the ore chute, where tbe silver values, per unit of lead, are lower than the average. During' the coming year I believe the ore will average 90 ounces j silver per ton and 15 per cent. lead. I The production should exceed 1,000 tons per month. The ore reserves are fully as large as when you took over the property, and are better opened up." It was explained that the ore would net ��57 p'-n* ton, or ��57,000 per month. As the use of pencils has'greatly de creased in the last decade, a foreign, market has to be secured for this enormous output. The Steward Company- is now sending pencils to almost every civilized country in the world, including Japan, China and India, as well as Furope. ANTIDOTE FOR POLITCS. j the men interested in the svndicate said plunks to help stake the gulch city after it W;|S mnv sun, of success and that the the fire had turned a red blackjack , Ul)m|li,���v xvm!ld be incorporated with a iipon it, May 4. | ,,,-,,,,-,,.,1 ,..i,i;t.ii!v.itinn iii New nominal capitalization in ibahh lo.rsey, jronaiiMy wuiiin the next ten days "It will, be put upon a conservative basis." said he "The aggregate capitalization of the companies to be merged is over ���S70.000.000, and the new company which Old newspapers for sale at this ollice. Great chance for bargain hunters, a* the stock must be sold to make, room for new goods. Miss M. iJurdy, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Rev. Roberts, for aonie months, left Monday morning for her home in Regina, N.YV.T. Ralph Smith is headed for Kaslo to put a labor candidate in the field. II this keeps up the Candidate city of the Slocan will soon have no voters left. If all citizens were as public-spirited as Cashier Gibbs not a stone would he left unturned until all New Denver's streets and squares had lost their bizarre appearance. The work on the Three Forks road, at which a force of ten men has been employed for the past three weeks, has placed that highway in a passable con dition once more The Ledge has one of the best job offices west of the Red river. Orders by mail, boat or pack train receive energetic attention at. prices compatible The band boys gave an open air con cert Saturday evening, much to the pleasure of the populace. An effort is being made to get a small amount of money subscribed weekly or monthly to enable the boys to give a sacred concert every Sunday afternoon The band is one of New Denver's staple articles and ought to be liberally encouraged by the citizens. The boys have done much to enliven the many otherwise monotonous occasion and are ready to do much more if a iittle kindly help is given them. "There is more than one way of killing a cat.'' The parties who so earn estly took up the proposition of filling- in the culvert on the government reserve and making of that block one that will be a credit to the town, have hit upon a very good scheme to raise money to finish the work beir>;iin some time ago. A social dance will he given on the evening-of May 24 in Bosun hall, ���*the proceeds of which" will go to hire.-; itre.i . I ing men and teams to go ahead with j fat. the work. Thanks to the many ener gotie helpers the task is well under j on the sunny side of things. He hap- way,-but it will require considerable' pened to lie 'present at a revival meet- a creditable j in*-' in a small town not far from Madi that all can j son. The preacher was eloquent and be no bad takes them all in will be capitalized at j their support. The old adage that only $15,000,000 to ��18,000,000. We, in-' tend shortly to apply to have the stock listed here and on the London exchange. Sl.OCAX MINKKAL lU.OA'l "everything is fair in love or war" is now sought to be applied to elections, so we may look for all sorts of under- Besides mine owners, a number of j Inuid trickery and slight of hand work bankers and railway men are going-! during the next few weeks. into it. We. now have two experts ex-1 amining the properties in South America and'the reports of Professor Ricketts, of Columbia, will also he utilized." One of the American companies to be absorbed is the Arizona, Eastern and! Montana company, which has mines at Tombstone, Cochise and Mayer, Ariz., and runs a smelter at Bigbug Postotlice, Ariz., whii niercial Mining company, controlled by Phcdps, Dodge & Co . of this city. Not His Natioxalitv.���State Treas im" I.'avidson of Wisconsin is a . happy, g'ood-iiatured fellow, who es to take life easv and alwavs looks which,less ��15,000 for working expenses, directed an Order of Prohibition to leaves $42,000 net profit monthly. This issue to restrain Harry Wright, the | wiii pav equa| to a monthly dividend of collector of votes, from including the oae per cent..on the capital of 82,600,000, ���ISO objected names in the voters' list, leaving a surplus of 810,000 each month. This will amount to practically shutting The value of the ore blocked out and them all out from any say in this elec- | r(,ady for shipment is about 8900,000. In reply to a question, the president explained that in the list of assets the mines, mineral claims and assets included a live asset of a large amount of which would be available for the purchase of other properties or for the further development of the mine. As for the SOO-foot level it was likewise declared that other mines in the neighborhood had been worked to a depth of 1,200 feet and were found to be very rich at that depth. A shareholder asked if it were correct that the old Company had paid dividends to the amount of 20 per cent, of tho capital. The president replied that he was not in a position to answer that question, but be added that from October, 189(>,to June, 1899, the Payne had. paid dividends to the amount of ��1,100,000, created at the same time a surplus of over ��200,000, as well as paying the original owners for the property. The old Board of Directors was reelected and Colonel Henshaw was again chosen president. . The president announced that in future dividends would he paid quar- terlv. tion.-as there, will scarcely be available time to have the names added, even if an appeal to the full count, which will be held in Vancouver on May 28, were successful. There is scarcely any doubt that names had been placed on the list who had no right whatever to have a voice in the government of the province and were placed there merely to forward the ends of some particular individuals, but at the same time many men have now been disfranchised who had every right of free citizenship and en titled to demand their little quota for work vet to make the jo!) Mr. Davidson was verv nnich interested one This scheme is om help in, and there should . ... wardncss on the part of anyone Fw.n j in what he had to say. The singing i if you cannot heel-and-toe it. you can , was good, loo, and Mr. DavhNon was, nut up the dollar. Cashier Gibbs. of' forcibly reminded of the good old days i the Bank of Montreal, will receive audi when he was t\ ounger and had panic- j account for all moneys taken in. ! ipated in manv such a mectint. i i * " j At one. stage of the nioetim men went through the audienn The Fnterprise shipped 8C tons last week. The. Chapleau people are clearing a site for their mill and have 28 men employed. Frank Provost has sold a half interest ,it leases from the old Com-[in 1? dahns 011 Leinon creek tn th(J Warner Miller Syndicate. The force on the . Last Chance has been increased to 75 men, and a car of ore a dav is being sent down the hill ; The long tunnel to get the depth on thej property is lining driven. New build-! ings are being erected. When finished i there will be accomodation for 15o men. | News from-the Coast states that the! Noble Five is i<> resume with a large force. It is reported that a deal in on by which Ihe property may change hands on a basis of 27 cents per share. An option, has been given lately on several large, holdings. THK JIAXUKACTIIKK OK SI.ATK CIJLS. PEN- Politics is a poison. Horse sense is its antidote. All men are subject to it at election time, when there is a chance to "get even" with some fellow for an imaginary wrong. Few men take the antidote, but prefer to allow the poison to pass out of the system in its regular course. As a result there is always more or less trouble at this season of the year. When a man takes the anti i dote he will not trouble his neighbors with his woes and jawbone. He won't roost upon a fence, rail and talk angel's wings upon one political candidate and devil's horns upon another. Horse sense comes in small packeges and great good comes from very small doses. Larger doses are proportionately beneficial. Politics is of short duration, but is a specie of hell while it lasts. It attacks a man unawares and leaves him a wreck of his former self. It is contagious. Was never known to make a fool wise, but many a wise man has been left a fool by it. Whole communities are frequently affected by it. As "misery likes company" so the politician seeks the company of those similarly affected. It deprives a man of all working proclivities and makes him a slave to party worship Horse-sense ia a preventive as well as a curative and should be kept on hand in every business office, store and home. A HOT TAJIALA. Life runs along in Sandon as gay, or gayer than ever. In the tented town can be heard the roll of the! roulette wheel, while nearly every one bete a chip or two on the seductive black-jack. There is scarcely a vacant chair in the booster family, and no rust on the tinhorn's holdout. The scarlet sisters, about twelve in number, trip the high ��� fantastic toe almost nightly in some of the saloons, "allee samee'' American dance hall, and the devil has a constant picnic amidst the ruins of-the gulch city. The fire created a great thirst, one saloon man selling nearly 81,500 worth of boozerine in less than a week after the blaze was over. Verily, Sandon do be a bird. Evading tin* Law, I The law in reference to advertising Slate pencils were formerly cut frmn j c,M.titi(.flt,,s (,f improvements does not solid slate just as it is dug from theearth j S(J(,,n tn he 0|���,V(>(i verv strictlv. The Pencils so made werw objected to on ��<-j n,.���ken Min. situated in Ainsworth di- rif which they contain,! vi>ioiu is ,,������������, .���iV(,,.ris(Mi j��� Nelson, | while half a dozen Slocan groups are j being advertised on a fly sheet printed | in Kaslo and lightly distributed around genious process by which the slate is; Sandon. This'is evading the law with "Many Americans," says a gentleman who has just returned from a visit to Mexico, "'are making fortunes, out of the mines throughout the Republic. Already there are five thousand silver mines and over one thousand gold mines being operated, and last year the value of these metals exported was nearly ��40,000,000 In no other country in the world are cotton mills paying* such dividends on the capital invested as those in Mexico, and new manufacturing plants of every description are going up all ovor the Republic. It has a great future, and in developing itself it is benefiting the business men of the Lnited States. The importation of machinery from the States in tbe last year! Williams amounted to over ��0,000,000 " ! street. Cnliroinia ;M in<*r;i Is. young- isking each one. 'Are you a Christian?" If San l-'rancisco. the answer was a negative one, than an of the mineral substances o appeal was made to the, person ad- \ during* the year 1809, according to the dressed to at. once seek the throne of j report of the state niinw.ralogist, were count of tin. which would scratch the slates. To i overcome this difficulty. Col. I). M.| I Steward devised and patented an in-; ">y which the slate, is! ground to very line powder, all grit and i H vrni,,.ance. foreign substances removed, and the; powder bolted throug-h silk cloth in i much the same manner as Hour is I bolted. The powder is then made, into Tin-: ska pen kok gold. nder the arch of the curving sky The sihmt Siwash sits alone; Close by the trail of the pes"-!a-ki,* a dough, and this dough is subjected lo j Phe vield and value' a very h,'av-v liy<ll"nili(' pressure, which j Hearing the low winds wail ami moan, '* ' ' ....' . j'presses the pencils nut the required j Wag-gang- his head and wondering why Lalitorma ! ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ))m -,, -,.������., |1S ofj The white man comes in a steaming ship grace. Mr Davidson was lost in thought, when one of these young men tapped him on the shoulder. lie looked up inquiringly. "Are you a Christian?" asked the earnest young man. "No! Ah bin Norwegian," replied Mr. Davidson, slowly.���Chicago Chronicle. Bock, Henry Clay and other prominent cigars are waiting for the public at " place of business on Sixth ��29.5-51*3,-I'iO. The value of the, gold products was ��15,H;W,0*51, copper .?;3,990,o?.l and petroleum 82,.'iiO,7.r>'J>. As the total mineral product for the previous year was valued at ��27.289,1)79, the increase for 1899 is ��2,024.H8l. about H ft. While, yet soft the pencils! are cut into the desired lengths and set! out to dry in the open air. After they j are thoroughly dry the pencils arej placed in steam baking kilns, where' they receive the proper temper. Pencils made in this manner are not only free from all grit, and of uniform hard- Colorado sometimes assesses unpat- j ness, but are stronger than those cut ented. unproductive claims at 8500 each;! out of the solid slate. For these rea- California, usually, at $100 each, for taxation purposes. The figure of assessment on a producing property varies with the amount of common sense possessed hy the. county assessor. sons they have entirely superseded the old kind. ()v��r 25,o0o,0o0 pencils were made and sold in the year 1899 by the D. M. Steward Manufacturing Company of Chattanooga, Teun. To search for gold at the rainbow's tip. "For what is gold but a broken stone, A part of this worthless waste of hills?'' The Siwash questions. The sad winds moan. But make no answer. The lowg night stills The thrush, and curtains the Klondike sky: And still they come, ship after ship, To search for gold at the rainbow's tip. ���Cy Warman, in Canadian Magazine. -^Prospector Services will be held in Stephen's church next Sunday, both morning and evening. Rev. C. F. Yates, pastor. 2 THE LEDGE, NEW DENVER, B.C., MAY 24, 1900. Seventh Yeah At'TKK THE BATTLE. The sun was setting o'er kopje and veldt, The heat of the day no longer is felt��� But alas! what a dreary sight : Scattered around", The dying and dead, Maimed and wounded, Bloody and red, Bruised and battered From foot to head, Torn and tattered, Their life blood shed ; Men who for their monorch bled Waiting* for death and the night. The Great Guns' throats are silent at last, The vulture gloats o'er his hateful repast, And darkness gather*** around. The steaming fire Of the (iatling gun, Shrapnel and bombshell At last are dumb, The ghastly work Of the day is done, And the horrors of The night begun Heroes are, dying, one by one. Soaking their bio;id in the u* roil ml. Friend and enemy, Briton and Boer, Lying around by the hundred score, Catching the moon's pale light. Covered in blood And dust and sweat, Agony on each Feature set . Clutching the place, ' Quivering, gasping, Where the lead was met��� Struggling yet- Beating the air in the throes of Death, Rendering hideous night. Who can describe with speech or pen That cry of a thousand suffering-men That breaks on the horrified ear ?��� Moan of anguish, Shriek of pain, Ravings fierce Of delirious brain Rising and falling* And rising again, Mingled together In terrible strain, Like waves of a sea of agony. Filling the soul with fear. And for what is all this bloody strife, This reckless slaughter of human life, What can such sacrifice mean? 'Tis but the way Of a nation great Settling account with Another State, Forming for ever A kingdom of hate ; "^wixt the two sides Of the human debate. Paving the price with the life-blood red Of "the Soldiers of the Queen. ��� Charles Bye'rs Coates in the Belgian Times and News. OPEN LKTTEH TO QUEEN VICTOIUA, Your Majustv,���Although born a princess myself, and, by virtue of marriage, a queen���being the daughter of one of America's Voting Kings and the wife of another-I yet feel a diffidence concerning the propriety of addressing you personally. However, having the interests of my sex at heart, and having on good authority learned that you (1 must believe without due thought) are treating with injustice a large class of your loyal subjects, 1 feel impelled to plead for their rights, and to ask you to give the matter more careful consideration. I refer to the status of divorced women in your empire. I am told that your Most Gracious Majesty refuses to receive, at court, any woman who has been divorced from her husband, no matter what the cause of such divorce may be. Just think of the penalty! To be denied the sight of your benign countenance; to be forever debarred from the extreme felicity of bending the knee before the Queen of Queens, and of backing out of the royal presence with consummate grace and without stepping on one's train, just because one's marriage has not happened to bo as fortunate as your own ! But, Madame, please'to remember that your female subjects are denied the royal prerogative of choosing husbands for themselves, as you did Even the more fortunate among them must wait to be chosen, and many have nothing to say but to acquiesce in the decisions of parents or guardians. Then, too, after marriage they have not the power of a queen to govern even domestic affaire. It is a safe rule to go by that no person can judge of another's motives unless placed in similar circumstances. Now, madam, please for a moment, imagine yourself in the place of one of these divorced wives. Without doubt the late Prince Consort���(peace to Iub memory) was a most exemplary husband: perpetuate his'vices in your -offspring? All this, and much more is frequently endured by your subjects. Is it any wonder they seek release from such a fate in the divorce courts? Considering all this, can you still continue to exclude all these innocent but unfortunate women from your august presence? We women of America reverence you as the brightest light of the old world. We admire your motherly, and grandmotherly, yes, and great grand motherly zeal in securing for your progeny princely incomes arawn from the toil of your poorer subjects We appreciate all the tender solicitude'which agitates your royal bosom whenever a. new member is added to your already numerous flock, and which solicitude will not let you rest until the child's future is provided for, even though the children of the tax payers starve,in consequence. For all your many good and noble qualities we revere your name, but until you readjust this matter, and do justice to divorced-wives; we rniiKt be permitted to thb'k- that: one dark blot stains the. character of the world's greatest queen. Shall we see the blot removed? Hopefully yours, Chicago. Elsie Coll Wilcox. war, (Translated from the French.) '(Fragments of a greatdrama yet unfinished.) SCKXK-I. In the camp of the Boers before Mafe- king. Boers, ia a reclining attitude, grouped around a pastor, who is reading from the Bible The Pastor [reading]���"If thy enemy hunger, feed him ; if he thirst give him drink." Brethren do not forget that you are Christians. The Pastor���In the meantime let us pray: [praying] Lord God of armies, since our cause is just, give us the victory ; bless our arms and preserve our lives! We also pray Thee, Lord, for our enemies as Thou hast, commanded. Pardon them for compelling us to kill them. Receive into thy heaven those among them who shall die in the faith. They are our brethren, since Thou hast washed them in the blood of Jesus, even as us. As for those who are still hardening* their hearts, do not allow our balls to hit them before they repent. We pray Thee to direct our shots so that only those who are ready to appear before Thee mav be slain. reach over, pick up a couple of roasted grains and chew them, meditatively. At the end of a half hour he had eaten S3 75 worth of coffee and the erst-while winner could make mo protest. When he finally left the store there was a twinkle in his eye. The banker hasn't succeeded in getting his affairs straight ened out yet. KIKS' DAY AT SCHOOL. ^AtJMkkibhkkSBI KGBXK II. [Every day in the besieged city there is held a meeting for prayer. More than a thousand officers and soldiers are present.] Chaplain [reading]: "You have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbor and thou shalt hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless those that curse you, do good to them that hate you '' A Young Soldier from London [who is incredulous]: These pastors find very strange things in their book, and they are so untimely ! Religion is good enough, but it is not practical, above ail in a time of war, and the government could use its money better than by paying it to folk who do not fight, and discourage others. The Chaplain���Well-beloved brethren, we are commanded to love our enemies, but also to punish the wicked. The wicked ! These Boers are wicked, and you are punishing them���by killing them. They are in other respects, for the most part, excellent fathers of families, and, still further, our brothers in the faith. When the war is over, those of us who are alive can, with the Christians on the opposite side, celebrate peace by assembling ourselves around the Holy Table. But today you have towards them a double duty, in which you will not be remiss���to love them all, and to kill as many of them as possible. A Christian Soldier���Dear pastor, I do not understand. The Chaplain���Nor I, but we must do it all the same.��� F. L. Emrick, in Advocate of Peace. Nibbled at the I'okci* Chip*. Say, 1 went to school today, I'm a-goin' to make dad pay Me the cent lie said I'd git Ef 1 didn't cry a bit, Er start cuttin' up in school ; He thought I'd be like a fool, Making all the chillun laugh Crying like a baby calf. Long before the clock struck nine, Ma, she had me looking* fine, Brushed my hair, an' sed with joy Thet I was a darlin' boy An' a credit to the house With my shoes and dandy blouse, Sed I'd go with brother Jim, So I started out with him. Wife we hustled through the town, Firs' we met wuz Johnnie Brown ; He ain't started yet you see, So he. laughed and sed to me, "Think you're actin' awful gay, Cuz yer goin' to school today ; You'll g-it licked and start to squall- How they'll laff to hear you bawl.'' An' he sed, ' 'W'y don't you stay An' piay ball 'itii me today?" Tho' I'd* like to, yet I went, Guz I thought about the, cent. An' w'en we got near the school, Jim, lie sed, "You must keep cool." But I heard the chillvn veil, "Here comes little Billy Bell !" An'they gethered in a crowd, An' they talked an' laffed aloud, Tho' I felt a little shy, Yet 1 dassent start to cry. . One big silly girl named Grace, L'p an' kissed nie'on the face, An' she used I looked like dad��� (You kin bet she made me mad.) I wu.55 scart. fer sister Floss Sed, "The teacher's kinder cross ;'' But she took me on her knee, An' wuz kind ez she could be, An' like ma, she said so mild. Thet I wuz a lovely child, An' I didn't cry er bawl Guz I wuzn't scart at all.. An' in school she only smiled W'en I talked er acted wild, Tho' to me she wuz so kind, All the others lied to mind, An' two kids thet bed a scrap, (Jot a lickin' with the strap. Ef I git a cent as pay, I'm a goin' ev'ry day. Colorado sometimes assesses unpatented, unproductive claims at *?500 each: California, usually, at $100 each, for taxation purposes. The figure of assessment on a producing property varies with the amount of common sense possessed by the county assessor. It is Germany's turn to attack the departmental stores in behalf of the small retailers A bill has been introduced in the Reichstag taxing* their sales in an increasing ratio as they increase, the average being about 20 per cent of the profits. oetreal \ ���t Ksfablisliert 1817. Capital (all paid up) $12,000,000.00 Reserved fund : : 6,000,000.00 Undivided profits : : 1,102,792.72 H15AI) OFK1CK, MONTKEAL Kt. Hon. Lokd Strathcona a.id Mount Ro*fal, G.C.M.G. President. Hon. G. A. Drummond, Vice President, E. S, Clouston, Genera] Manager, Branches in all parts of Canada, Newfoundland, Great Britain, and the United States. . New Denver branch E. PITT, Manager ���>rt;'t-<--OTWy,Cgir*-^^ One of the signs in the grocery store innounced "Raspberry jam 2r> cents the jar." "Ah!" said .Mrs. Newiiwed,. "isn't that jam jear-J" "Beg pardon!" exclaimed the grocer She tried it again. "I said isn't that dam deary" Then she blushed vividly and retired in confusion. The little girl stood on the street corner sobbing,as if her heart would break. [)n the stone flagging were the bits of a broken pitcher. "There, there, little girl," said the benevolent man, "don't cry, don't cry little girl; 'never cry over spilt milk.'" "But it isn't milk," sobbed the girl: "it's beer." Dennis���It was a foine wake they gave Hooligan. Mike���It war. An' it's a donated shame Hooligan couldn't 'avesitup wid the push an' enjoyed the sport. It is reported that the Fayal mine at, Fveleth will ship 1,500,000 tons of ore this year. The mine is in condition to ship that amount providing no labor difficulties arise. The Fayal is theonly mine in the world that is worked upon the underground, milling and steam shovel systems. It is unquestionably the greatest mine in the world and will prove its right to that title before the ore shipping season closes. Mother���That note paper is certainly very quaint, but are you sure it is fashionabier' Daughter���Oh, it must be It's almost impossible to write, on it. "Hallo, Griggs! Haven't seen you lately. Where have, you been?" "Oh, travelling for my health!" "Don't, you find it rather expensive?" "Oh, no!" I get away from my doctor." We can give you Tailor-made Suits . at prices ranging between-these . figures���and the quality and (it guaranteed the best. Have taken several orders in the past week; can't we take your measurement? We have made arrangements with one of the best tailoring establishments in Canada with headquarters at Montreal, to do our Tailoring, and are now prepared to take orders for Spring and Summer Suits, at Eastern prices. We have a large selection of Worsteds, Suitings, Pantings, Serges, Overcoatings, etc., and are confident that we can satisfy you in every detail. We take your measurement according to the latest and surest method and guarantee a perfect fit. As we have no local tailoring establishment we have adopted tins plan of giving to our patrons the best tailor- made clothing, feeling sure that our efforts will be appreciated. That you may better uncl< rstand the proposition, we ask you to inspect samples and get prices. BOURNE BROS., Business Kometimes drags during the. afternoons down among the Water street wholesale houses, and on the principle that when the cat's away the niiee will jilay, the clerks often amuse but try to imagine, that he was not. ��� themselves will quiet little poker games Suppose he. gambled away his money until the little princes and princesses were, forced to go without shoen! Suppose he cainei home late at night, intoxicated���his whole system saturated with whiskey and tobacco, and in this state insisted on kissing vour pure lips and says the Philadelphia Record The proprietor of a tea and coffee warehouse left the other day about H o'clock. But he. changed his mind about two hours later and discovered four of his trusted employees engaged in a game of poker. Thev were caught dead to rights and nauseating you with his vile breath! there was nothing to do but bluff it out. Would you have repulsed him with ] "I here wasn't anything going on," ex- loathing ami disgust? I plained the hanker, "���.so we tlmught we But suppose again, thai you were not. j would try a little poker���just for fun. a queen, but just an ordinary wife, and ��� you know." that your husband, in this drunken j Asa matter of fact they were playing state, insisted on claiming his "marital , a -Jo-cent limit game, and in lieu of chips rights." Would not your whole nature ; grains of raw coffee represented .-"> cents have, revoked against I he., nit rage? And, each and roasted coffee grains were 2"< suppose thai he was brutal enough lo; cents. "I'll just sit and watch you for beat you into .-uibinis.-doii, and that act ; awhile." said the merchant, who is resulted in ihe crcalion of a deformed \ something of a sport himself, lie. pulled or idiotic child! Would you not feel i a chair up alongside the fellow who had | justified in leaving him rather t han \ the mosl coffee in front of him and the,: continue lo suffer degradation, and I bus I game proceeded. At int ervals he would j XOWLEDGL isn't wisdom, lm( wiili- out knowledge it, would lie diflicult to make ,i man wise. If we. wonH act: wisely in anything we must first gain tlie knowledge to know how to act and liien wiili wisdom jjut our knowledge into prueticul use. When a man is easting about, looking for a locution where he can make his homo with the assurance that, if he ���'attends to his knilling'' and honesty strives to make Ihe best of his opportunities, his efforts will he crowned with success, he wants to know the merits and demerits of the locality and the conditions exislin;.', so as to act with wisdom . It is because men act without wisdoio on very little knowledge that so many make failures of life. They are led bv impulse and flirt with Dame Fortune like a giddv school girl The result is always the same. Thev fail; and when thev (to down they take some bodv with them, and the community at large suffers in some measure with every failure. It is not failures, hut successes, that go to build u|p a community. One strong,energetic, successful man in a town, who has won through sheer "stick-to-itiveiiess'- and merit, is worth a dozen hangers-on. who, without wisdom or worth, attempt to win by pot luck. It is the former class that are wanted in this part of British Columbia. If any such are seeking an opening, (hey can come this way. There are onenings for every one. Success will he their's as sure aa they work for it. New Denver makes the first hid for this class of men. We. have some here hut there is room for more The inducements offered are many. We will state 11 few, as briefly as possible: ��� Xi'W Denver's location, on a plateau sloping to the .shore of Slocan lake, makes it an ideal spot for a residential eentre. which it is fast heiim made. Its homes are. far above the average found in most mining camps, and its public hal'sainl buildings ami business blocks are commodious, substantial, and built with a view to permanency There is nothing shoddv ��� .about them. Like the men who built them, t Hey are hereto stay. It is hut natural tha; this feeling of confidence in New Denver's stability should prevail. Aside from the advantages that the town has as a residential centre, it is last becoming the headquarters for some of Uie strongest mining companies operating in the Slocan. The Silver mountain, ('oat mountain and Fidelity-Bosun mines, carrying big gold, silver and lead values, are. rapidly developing* into heavv ship|iers. Their payrolls at present will nol aggregate more than l'Ki men, hut this number will be mon; than tripled in a short time. New Denver is the banking and commercial centre, as well as tl ��� residential town on the beautiful Slocan lake. The business done hy the Bank of Montreal is surjirisinglv large and ever increasing. All the Local miiies and those of Four Mile, Ten .Mile and S|>ringer and Lemon creeks pav through the local bank. New Denver's school facilities are good: its churches arc neat, woll-con structeil and well attended. Its streets a re sidewal ked in all direc lions. The town is nol hii| out with inn ���street and a hack yard, Im! covers 1'nllv a mile sijuare and is wilhoul doubt, the prcii'csi spoi I'm* a li nc in the milling section ,,r !iri!is 11 ('..liimhia New Denver's citizens are ihe eionm-rs of the. Slocan They have made nioiiev In thi-camji, and reinvested it. 'I'1 icy own tl'ie-'r homes and are i tinually improving iheni cuiilldent that they will be amply repaid for the e.\pcuditiiM> in ihe conilori and enjo\ nicni of them. There are opening;", in New Denver for several lilies of business. New Denver's Maaiic. beautv is unpara'led in North America; its climn'e' is temperate, and the health of itsciii/.em marvel.mslv good- sickness from b.eal causes is seldom exiiericnced. New Denver, B. THE WM. HAMILTON MANUFACTURING CO., LIMITED PETERBOROUGH, ONTARIO, CANADA. The Clifton House, Sandon. Has ample accommodations for a large number of pe��|ilt>. The rooms are large and airy, and the Dining Room is provided with everything in the market Sample Rooms for Commercial Travelers. John Buckle}', Prop. NEW DENVER, B. C. Provides ample and pleasant accommodation lor the traveling- public. Telegrams for rooms promptly attended to. HENRY STEGE/ - - - ' - Proprietor. UNION MAD! New Denver, B.C. A .1 J.COBSON & CO.p.-ops Best meals in the city���Comfortable rooms��� Bar replete with tin-best of Liquors and Cigars J'est service throughout. Seventh Year. THE LEDGE,'NEW DENVER, B. C, THURSDAY, MAY 24, 1900. 3 By LTJOY OLEYELAKD. [Copyriffht. 1SS7, by the Author.] "What do yon think is in it?" I asked the question again of my companion as v. e paced up and down the deck oi the Peninsular and Oriental steamer. , We were plowing our way through the hay of Biscay. Our destination was Calcutta via the Suez canal. The .first stop was Gibraltar, and the captain had assured us at luncheon that we should hear the bulldog menace of its sunset gun that night. The steamer was to stop at the rock 24 hours to coal. Thereupon the ladies had indulged in frantic hopes and plans of ascending the rock of Gibraltar on appropriate donkeys, and of seeing, possibly a fatuous afternoon hour when the "thin red line" of England, made up of men who are va- rievsly scarred from wars in the Sudan, Zululand, the Crimea and India, parade on the Alameda, regiments who name Bunker Hiii and the New York Battery us two wesum objective points of contest. The steamer's.���passengers were inter- o-'-'i'.vc, lor each member of our company was abroad with a special intent, not the usual aim]' -s loitering, as along Atlanric liners. Hire wore English officers destined for'Egypt, fathers of families -who wire raising ostriches on farm's in South Australia, traders from upper Egypt \vhb had unloaded their wares in London and were now returning via Alexandria to Siout on the Nile; a silent German fellow, a professor, whom none of us could make out, but who was interesting, who wore a scientific frown and kopt below three-quarters of the time; myself, six feet of George Washington's acres; tail and distinguished looking East Indians, who had been at Chie-i^o's "White City" in the year of the great exhibition, and a sprinkling of Tuiks from whom the wiser among us lied, remembering the immortal flea "She's one of the prettiest women I ever saw," I said lo my companion, au English military officer, as we turned for the twentieth time in onr paco along the deck. "How did she register?" ' 'Lady Jemappes." "Humph! A French name. But she's English���English coloring, comph xion like a poach and tho brilliant, high bred air of your gnat, ladies. Traveling alone with a maid, is she not?" '' Yes, and joins tho old man at Malta, they say." "In de-ad I" I laughed and lifted my eyebrows. "But her gowns are creations, her manners charming, her beauty very unusual. You've noticed that We raised our hats. belt she wears, no matter what the gown. She is a silent woman. I have started any number of topics from Nan- sen and the north pole to the Derby and the Roentgen rays. She smiles sweetly, but seems to avoid conversation. " "Silence in a woman is the great discovery awaiting the twentieth century. " The officer smiled and relit his pipe. "I doubt if they'll get it." "Gome; that's unfair," I said, joining, however, in the laugh. "Now, here's this woman you're talking of," the English officer resumed. "I've seen her often in animated confabs with the Turks." "By Jove! I wonder if she avoids me because I always inevitably keep my eyes on that strange girdle she wears. There's beginning to be a little breath about it on board. Everybody is talking about it. The captaiu thinks it's mysterious too. There is no fashion at present among the fair sex of knotting a belt or girdle around the waist. It must be 2% yards long. I'm good at staccato measurements. The. woman has a fashion of keeping her hand on it whether she's talking or walking. I've watched her at table. She twists the belt in her lap and is perpetually staring away from her plate at it. There's one portion of ! it, I've noticed, that won't twist. It j Ues stiff and strong, an immovable, out- i line. It's a queer outline. I can't tell ! you why, but it's queer. I don't like it. The other dav the girdle came unfas- \ tened and fell to the deck as the woman ; steadied herself in the ship's lurch in j that big blow off the Channel islands. ; Lady Jemappes -was for the moment ! whiter than the foam tipped wave off j there. I jumped forward and restored it j to her. There's something inside it. I I could feel that the moment it was in j n:y hands. As I gave it to her ladyship \ she gave, me a look which I can't for- ; get. Perhaps it contains her will or ti- '< ties to an estate or Bank of England j notes or love letters. There is something insi.ic it. I could feel that." "Hold up, Dillons. You are getting as curious as a woman. Bat I'll fine our the secret, I bet you. How much shall I put up on it?" The officer raised his fn-ddglass and swept the sea where the winter sun hung low for a glimpse of the dark lion couchant���impregnable Gibraltar. "Look out, man; she'll hear yc;. There she comes!" Accompanied ly her Eaaid, who carried the wiaps a*:d rugs, steamer chair, etc., a bcauuli.J woman came tlowly forward with th�� graceful; high bred carriage of one long accustomed to contact with tbe world's best. We raised our bats, Caithness and I, and went forward to proffer our assistance. ��� "Thank you," a gentle, beitutifully modulated voice answered, and my Lady Jemappes lifted upon us the gaze of the two great, deep blue-eyes, blue as that sets of azure glory out there. "I will sit here for a little while. I hear that we sbatl sight Gibraltar in an hour." "Docs your ladyship purpose joining the excur:-irnists up the rock?" I began tu iVel a throb around my heart as those blue eyes dwelt i n me. Caithness bad warned me ye:-.,.* iday that I was in lor it, "No, I, think rot, "������she answered * ":nd the captain has promised ns r.:- '*":'���;' '--ii plum pudding, etc., and a da'ice -.'ivrward on deck if the weather I'.-e !:��� v<iiabJe. The band we're taking to j ��� y-, r i- tolerably good. I have con- <���(.< ��� d m me dancing i aids. May I have thf i.< i:er cf the first two waltzes, my la-y? It js asking a great deal, but Ei'gJand is forever impudent as regards h<���������: ow.u interests." He, laughed and shewed us the pretty dancing cards he had made, with Britannia, of course, lionized through the world (in black ink). "That's my plan," said Caithness to me an hour later, when my lady had gone below. "As my arm encircles her gentle waist 'On the Beautiful Blue Danube,' I can tell from the feel of the belt (she'll be sure to wear it) what's in it, I bet. " "Better still, tap the maid." "Doesn't know any more than we, I hear." ��� , "Did you see the woman stop and Lady Jemappes' hand that was leaning on the rail as she stood and gazed j out eagerly over the ocean closed tightly j ��� . ' '���'.'' i upon the long girdle. A sudden id��a j jame to me. I would get that belt and j subject it to the X rays. Get that belt? j I laughed to myself. I might as we'll j try to photograph the depth of the sea. j "You go to Egypt, doctor?" says j Caithness again. | "Yes, gentlemen. Through English influence I have secured a fine post in the Egyptian army. I hope to accompany it on its proji cted campaign for the relief of Kassala. I have been much in E��ypt and have had an audience with the khedive." What induced me to lift my eyes upon the Lady Jem a],pes? Those beautiful eyes had sought my own with the beseeching, hungry, doglike pain of a Wuunded animal. And the man's soul within me stormed upward for her beautiful sake alone. But Schmalen- ; but a something within her eyes that made my veins crawl. The sun's red took the strange girdle. A distinct but yet unintelligible hieroglyph was beginning to write itself on my brain. Were those love letters in her belt? No. I believed it was her will and testament. She was vastly wealthy, one could see. Did I believe it was her will, etc.? "'We shall have a good 24 hours in Gibraltar, my lady," I said, drawing nearer the beautiful figure. "How do you propose spenT.^; it? If I might have the plea-me of showing you about a little"��� The woman.turned very pale. It was a strange pallor seen under the flash of the sinking sun. "I want to see the rock galleries and their guns," she said quickly, not raising her eyes. "There will be a grand salute given tomorrow, they tell me. The German emperor's yacht will be off Gibraltar." "Oh, ho!" thought I. "What are the KgJKXSXSK "To the, Electors of tho Slocan Hiding* of West Kootenay: Gentlemen���With the dissolution of the Legislative Assembly, the duty ag*ain devolves upon the electors of the .Slocan Riding* to choose a member to represent them in the Provincial Legislature. It is my intention to become a candidate at the. forthcoming* election and with full confidence of the result I respectfully.solicit Jhe suffrages of the electors of the riding*. While, I point with pardonable satis isfaction to the manner in which [ have conserved tho interest of the Riding* and sought to meet local requirements so far as practicable, I have earnestly endeavored to forward legislation in the interests of the entire Province, and such as would tend towards its material development. Constant in attendance at the session of the Legislature, I have been watchful that no vote of mine should be wanting lor any measure beneficial to my constituents, or the Province as a whole: nor have I been neglectful of the interests of the wage earner, but have in some degree at least been instrumental in placing their demands amongst the principles to be advocated by a great political party. It is well perhaps that I should briefly state, some of the principles which I have advocated and shall continue to advocate until they are incorporated in Provincial Legislation 1. I am in favor of an equitable redistribution of the seats in the legislative Assembly, based- generally upon population, but with due regard to the interests and circumstances of outlying and more sparsely settled districts. 2. I shall ad^ocat'* the government ownership of railways, and other public franchises so far as may lie practicable and a general enactment by which companies desiring- to construct railways may be incorporated without special legislation, and that railways bouused by the Province may be under government control as to their rates, and subject to purchase at government option. 8. ! shall do all in my power to assist and support the advancement and development of the mining interests ol the Province upon which its prosperity is so.materially dependent. . ���i. 1 believe in the principle of the eight-hour law and shall permit no interference with this law as it stands, and shall insist upon the retention of the penalty clause. 5 I shall advocate a liberal expenditure upon trunk'roads and trails in the various districts of the Province, believing that upon such expenditure the development of the vast resources of the country materially depends. 6. I shall advocate and if elected assist in the enactment of laws for the proper adjustment of disputes between labor and capital by a well digested and equitably arranged system of compulsory arbitration. 7. I believe that Asiastic and other cheap labor is detrimental to the best interests of British Columbia. 1 shall, therefore, advocate restriction so fat* as it may be intra vires of Provincial Legislation, and shall assist in bringing such pressure to bear upon the Federal Government as may induce the government to assist in the work, and will most emphatically insist that no such class of labor shall be employed upon any public work.- undertaken by the Province or upon such works as are subsidized by, or in any way subject to ���the control of the government. 8. I believe that' the educational system of the Province may be materially improved, and shall give my heartiest- assistance in bringing it to the highest state of efficiency by the establishment of Normal schools and other instrumentalities that may tend to the accomplishment of that object. 9. I" shall also advocate and assist the development of the agricultural resources of the Province. 1.0. I believe that the moneys of the Province should be expended upon some broad and general system which would ensure the greatest amount of benefit from such expenditure. In this Riding I have endeavored to inaugurate such a system by having the work upon roads and trails placed under a responsible head, so that the appropriation necessarily inadequate under existing circumstances might be beneficial and economically expended. Yours Faithfully, R. F. Green. ! quietly. "I have done that several ' times." I "Oh, ho!" I said to myself. "What I does that mean?" And then aloud: "I I wonder if the old lady "with the wig I will attempt it. I hear she is one of the ! most ardent in the plan." ' We all laughed. Unconsciously again ! my eyes traveled toward that mysteri- ! ous belt. It was gone. A shudder went through the woman, whose eyes followed my own. A spot i of color burned on her beautiful face, | telegraphing to lip and eye her startled i pulses. I saw her jaw tremble, and the i hand that grasped now the arm of the ! steamer chair shook with some great : emotion. She turned to her maid. One ' glance was enough. I was more than ! ever convinced that the belt was of some 1 tremendous importance in the woman's ' destiny. ! "You will bring me my girdle," she said, biting her under lip nervously and avoiding my eyes. The maid disappeared. "Just fancy," Lady Jemappes went on, toying with the heavy gold chain bracelet on her fair little wrist, "fancy coming on deck without one's accouter- ments." Her eyes again met mine. Anxiety and terror strove in those beautiful eyes with the dawn of divine feeling. I held those eyes a moment. But the maid appeared up the companionway, in her hand the belt. The peeress could not speak. It was a long girdle, made of some dress material stuff, I should say. I can't describe these things as a woman does, with all the adjeotives two hands high. The belt was lined with pale blue velvet. It was about a quarter of an inch thick. She knotted it around her slim waist. But, as 6he had never done before, she took a small key from her pocket and fitted it into a little gold lock that clasped the belt together. And I heard the Jock snap. She restored the key to her pocketbook. Then, with the old, graceful breeding and composure, she drew our attention to the sunset h- !.i. en a distant sail at the entrance to '<:��������� <���}��� that mures into Gibraltar. ''V.i -1 ') >���; ��� ���,, ('bri.-dmas on the ir*.; ' ii. i .- .':!��� v, " said Cairh- speak to the Turkish chap for full ten minutes as she left us? I have never set u her so animated. Their eyes met mete than once. And she glanced at h::-:::rdle." "Tap Lie Turk." "In vain. Wasn't it Carlyle wh6 called him 'the unspeakable Turk?' " Caithness laughed. "His silent chess play has got Europe in a fix. That's the reason I'm going to Egypt." "There comes my lady again! Restless creature today, for some unexplained reason. I believe she retires below to read the love letters in that belt. There comes the silent German professor! Why do you suppose he's always in his stateroom? He is seldom in the saloon. He registered 'Dr. Schmalenstopfer,' " I began. "Hold up!" laughs Caithness. "The -aame would knock you down. But if you sneeze you'll get it. The captain's cabin boy says he has in his large stateroom a huge apparatus"��� "By Jove! I have it! Sure as you'r6 born, it's a cathode ray photo apparatus." "I wouldn't wonder," says Caithness, "but what is he after with Xrays? Where is t be man going? Do you know?" "Yes; Alexandria first. I heard him ?.��.y; later, Constantinople.'' "Hello Would be tubes on the .-.nhan and get the shadow - graph i i bis inner meaning for Armenia i.i.-.i (.n ti . Don't laugh so. It wilJ come to thiit���this stupendous discovery of Keen!, en's. We shall get the psychic man presently." '���doe forbid! The divine, right of privacy is no mere then." .*'Nt:,:' ii'.nghs ('��� ithr.'.ss and turns to the |*ri'ic---nr. "We hear, docl'.r, that you ar< -pending thes" hems when the most- of us loiter and smoke and flirt on deck in the depths of scientific analyses. You are interested in the Roentgen rays?" goes on sly Caithness, offering a cigar. "Yes, gentlemen," answered Schma- lenstrpfer, with strong foreign accent. "If l*- ihe marvelous already. I have ecr:: :_':���. ins:<-e of many .things. " ���topfer went on, adjusting his glasses: "I have interested myself so much in this marvelous discovery of the vater- land that I have managed to bring my ���athod* ray photo apparatus with me into Egypt.'' "I should like to see you play it on tbe dervishes," says Caithness. We all laughed. Lady Jemappes did not speak. The restless, round spark of red was moving in her cheek. But a great moment was approaching ���the entrance to the strait of Gibraltar. The passengers were coming up on deck, and a commotion of questions and exclamations put a stop to X rays. The sea was a burnished amethystine violet, a palpitating shimmer and shade like the sheen on a pigeon's throat. The sky was a poem in its chromatic ascensions of sunset. The low, dark line off there nine miles beyond was the mysterious line of Africa's centuries of silence, the land of the great past and the greater possible. And .--;.cdt nly from out the i. 0C( au, above tn >!" laughs Caithness again. "It a good joke to play the Crookes rob and obeisance of waters at its 1<; f, rises and rises���a shadow is it, in gigantic gloom of death ��� the shadow that will fall upon him who menaces its might���the rock of ages, Britain's peaked cap that crowns her in the face of four continents whose shipping she surveys from her impregnable outpost���G i bral t ar! The word burst from everyone's lips. I could not speak, but; a thrill of no mean pride surged through my soul as I l'( It myself a man of that nation who had climbed a mightier rot k i bat is eyrie for ihe eagle, the rock of impi< g- nable 'freedom, frcm wl.e.-e ��..:���. i.iic shadow Britain has twice v. iti-er.-wij with her lien, wisi r, to her ov. n -.-co to restudy the habits < I' wr.-.i 1:1 ea: .Vs. The dyi:ig sunset t<*< k ail Cil..va! tar's citadel. The stern "-tone \\; - ;;:!. ��� ��� t\ with crimson. The sails of t. .������.,<: s ship].ing at the ent3..nce to \,a s. n.it caught the pink d;.;.; le of light. Ihe glow burn d upon the laces of the passe:. ��� us. J turned and saw Lady Jemappes standing silent and alone, upon her face a ���hrob of mingled sorrow and yearning, a womanju,od on her lips that siiind all the man's pulses within me, rock galleries to you, you mysterious witching womanhood? Do you contemplate tiuicide?" But for the moment conversation and soliloquies shattered in the sunset, for the mouth of Gibraltar spoke. Across to Africa the thunderous challenge rolled. The gun fire from the turn's throat bellowed its belief in one lauy alone���Britannia. Its white breath inrdled in clouds around the mount, an incense to Victoria by the grace of God, I suppose, or something else. I tmrned to my beautiful lady. Jove I How those eyes took my breath! Those eyes were misted with tears. Worse and worse. What did it mean: "The devil! I'll risk it," I said to myself. Then aloud, "Lord Jemappes is listening to Britain's gunfire at Malta, my lady." Again that ghastly pallor creeping down and across her face. Was it psychic, or was it certain? The pallor was creeping on to the girdle, and���I'm no fool, you know���did that girdle move? I thought I would move away. And yet I was chained to the spot by her Rtrange and overwhelming beauty. "Yes, Lord Jemappes," she said. "How glorious that last rim flash of buij! There, it is gone! I am ohilly. I think I must go below." The girl was lying white and silent a-* before, with a deathlike, peaceful smile wreathing her parted lips. Harry stole to the couch and looked nto the girl's eyes. A merest gleam of a heartbreaking recognition flickered then-, like a stray and feeble sunbeam, and vanished. The young man dropped on one knee by tbe side of his dying :::; her cold and humid w ill his kisses. " he cried in the ter- ";**a.ut that it may not bride and, grasp hand, covered it "Oh. my (4e,fi ror of his ;r*iirt, le too late���grant that it may not be too late!" He took the knife he had brought, and with one swift and desperate move- lieiit cut a great gash in his left arm. L'he sieaini'g bii'i.d spurted over his face and ch< m. nut he dashed tlie horn cup to the wound with a lightninglike swing, and the hot fluid gushed info it He felt his fixe grow red and white by turns, and a strong tremor filled his i'rar-p, hut h" kept a tight hold of the bom until h ��� knew that his blood was trickling into it mure and more slowly. Then he satisfied himself that the c*ap was nearly full to the brim, though his head s'vaui' and i':e walls and the couch vj () the g rl upon it appeared Co him to tun- ro'xu.d' i;: a hazy whirl. H�� crept to the couch side with the love of a life beaming in .his dark eyes. Gently, tenderly, as a woman might have done, he inserted his right arm beneath the girl's ,-heaViers, and, raising her drooping head with a solicitous care, he held with his h..- the cup to her lips, though he felt the blood still flowing from his arm in a warm stream. The half open litis admitted a few drops; then the head <������-���::k b-icS rs a gasping thrill pervaded the slender frame. Harry softly pressed tbe cup again to his love's lips, and a few more drops passed. Then he waited a dozen seconds, while his sight grew dimmer and his temples throbbed as in fever. Again he placer, the cup to the whitC'lips, and'he was happy to see a few more drops of his life's blooa lushing to save her whom he loved so well. Time after nine during tbe next hour he repeated hi.-, work of mercy until at last the glassy eves brightened with the signs of reviving life and a dim smile beamed there. The cold figure seemed to warm into pulse. :*ig vigor, the bosom heaved in more visible evenness, and at last a sigh, long drawn, escaped from it. Then Karry on a sudden felt all around him grow dark. His wounded arm burned as in a raging fever, and he swayed as be knelt by his Nellie's couch. "I've done what I could," be muttered. "Gc'-dhy, Nellie. Goodby, d&r- lin. Goodby, goodby!" He stretched out a wildly fumbling hand and fell face foremost on the floor. * * # * * > * ��� The sun of a bright winter morning glowed, an orb of red fire, on a horizon of silver, which graduated westward into a pale, steely blue. Around the hut wharePuiuther Harry lay horses neighed and pawed the snowy ground, while the air was astir with cheery human voices. A score of Uncle Sam's dragoons, unrecognizable as soldiers under the oddest and most varied assortment of fur clothing, tramped up and down by the tethered horses, swinging their arms and stamping then* ieec to keep their limbs warm in the keen and bitingly brisk atmosphere. Within three or four men, two of them in the uniform of officers of the United States cavalry, were busy attending to the needs of poor Nellie, who sat, pale and , shamefaced, on her couch, looking with frightened gazelle eyes at her lover, whose wounds one of the men was dressing. "A fine fellow that, doctor!" exclaimed a boisterous lieutenant of dragoons. "I.wonder how he came by that gash in the arm. The place is swimming in blood. Is he all right?" . "Right as rain," the surgeon replied. "He hasn't poisoned his constitution with whisky of late. He'll be up and doing in a day or two." . "And the old man?" asked the officer. "There's life in the old dog for many a day to oome yet. But don't you go Raising her drooping head -with solicitous care. and feed him with rancid pork and molasses. A stomach that's been starving for a week or two can't stand that. " ��� * * ��� * * ��� The story of Painther Harry's cordial is told to this day by many a pioneer's fireside out west. The gold which Harry discovered at such an awful cost did not ruffle tho even tenor of his and Nellie's homely lives. THK END. Thoughts of a Bachelor. Without life death wouldn't be worth dying. Some men have corns on their souls, and their bodies hurt them. A girl is never really in love till she feels herself blush when she says her prayers. Widows get along best with men be- eae.-i they know enough not to aggra- vale I hem too far. Socrates always claimed he married X. Mipp- lor discipline, but probably .v . ! a.-. 1 i\v to cry at the right time. ���N�� w York Press. VKKSKS OF DISCONTENT. 1 see naught in the silken robe But labor of the spindle slave: I see naught in the ancient pile But mark of tyrants low and vile, The splendor "of the rich has shown But sharper as in chiselled stone The luing-cr of the lowlv poor. ���Otto Waklen Henschftl. In Idaho, jreuerally, the percentage of gold in the ore increases with depth: ordinarily, in Nevada, the percentage of silver in the ore is yreater as g*reater depth is obtained. For Sale���The Taylor House, Enterprise Landing, one of the best hotel locations on Slocan lake. Apply to 0. B. Taylor, New Denver. THE LEDGE. NEW DENVER, B.C.. MAY 24, 1900. Seventh Yeap. The Ledge. Published every Thursday. R. T. LOWERY, Editor and Financier. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Three months ������*��� .<������> Six " 1.25 Twelve " -'.<>0 Thbee years - -'.Wl Transient Advertisini?, 25 cents per line first in sertion, 10 cents per line subsequent insertions nonpareil measurement. TO CONTRIBUTORS. Correspondence from every part of tbe Kootenay District and communications upon live topics always acceptable. Write on botlrsid.es of the paj��er if you v/iah. Always rend something good no matter how crude. Get your copy in while it is hot, and we will do th* rest. A pencil cro3S m tins square indicates that- your subscri])- tion is due, and that the editor wishes once again to look at your collateral. fEUKSDAY, MAY 2-1. 1900. Queen Ciim'n Vktoria' V. . weighs-lOS pounds. ICtOna is 4 foot 10 inches in height* and 81 years old to-day. In extending our congratulation we trust that- the day is yet far distant when Bertie, of Guelph. will have his natal period made a public holiday. Owing to recent events there will be a hot time in many a town before the sun goes down this p.m. Enthusiasm and good feeling runs high just now towards our Most Gracious Queen in every land under the folds of the Union Jack. Not simply because Victoria, is a woman and a queen.' but because she represents the greatest nation on earth. Then, here's to Queen A'io. May all the gods bless her. and make her last days one. sweet poem of joy. pea.ee and glory, un- l'aeked by pain, undimmed by sorrow and unshuttered by regal discord. a. clear his intellect. It require bracer of some kind. ��� Here is a bouquet from C. J). Rand, of Spokane. The bouquet had a -52 attachment. "Although I have not had the. pleasure of visiting the Lucerne of America for many moons, still I always read your weekly effusions with much interest, and if T were so situated that I would have to give up your paper'or a box of cigars,.; I think the box of .cigars would have to go. and I hope that you may long continue to be a. trail blazer for the tend erf eet." Hei-e is one from a rough rider now on a firing line in the red- streaked dark continent: ������Dear Colonel.���A bundle of Lkik-ics came into camp just before our last battle. ft put so much vim and nerve into the boys that they came nearly cleaning tip the entire Boer gang upon the following day. Send us plenty of them. One copy is more appreciated than a million pairs of socks." Tims you see. my smooth and tender reader, how may ways there are of sizing up the sheet you an now so. in tenth* reading. Kane Indications in England point to an immense flow of capital to British Columbia just as soon its the war is over. Come along, we are waiting for thee and. the long sack that is spoken of so much in history and financial journals. The Jesuits have There will be an almost total eclipse of the sun next Monday. As the world may come to a.n end on the same day we would suggest that all our delinquent subscribers dig tip. and be prepared to meet their god with a smile on their faces and a glad peaceful feeling pervading their most innate nature brothers, dig. Dig. Strict 0i distributed a. pamph- rOerS lot to the followers in Manilla, which exhibits an overplus of gall upon the part ������ of its compilers. None but the most ignorant and superstitious would ever .think of following the commands of this would-be religious trust. The pamphlet says: ������'Second���You must subject your own judgment to that of the church and think as the church thinks, for the church can not be overcome. ���'Third���You must reject and condemn the Masonic sect, so frequently rejected and condemned by the supreme pontiffs. ''Fourth���You must also reject and condemn liberty of worship. The Martinites i ��--\ ��� i raised Kane in IS K31 SeQ Sandon Friday night and made him their candidate in the present Slocan campaign. Why has this been done? Is it a- joke on George, or the community V Kane is one of the pioneers of Kaslo. and a good fellow around home. He is all right to sit upon the counter of a corner grocery and settle the affairs of state.aimotating his remarks by occasionally spitting tobacco juice at a passing fly, but when it comes to posing before the public as a. seeker after legislative honors George is simply like a fish two miles from water. His .remarks at Sandon,on Saturday night were painful and amusing. Painful because no true man likes to see a good man murder the Queen's English, and amusing because George talked more like Billy Florence in the Mighty Dollar than I a. man fully, in earnest about-the | grave political situation of fl>i*j (.0U]lt ,-,[,<. ]imiS( sorely tried province. - George I ,-01.ina,11(.l> ;������ should not have forgotten that in the game of politics it is always more dignified to be a rubberneck than, a chubber. not alter the fact that a. Boer triumph would put South'Africa-back a hundred years. I was always hissed���always. "In short* my experience was that, outside-of a small set in the Eastern States,and apart from some New York and Boston newspapers, the whole trend of opinion is hostile to England.' A glance at the caricatures which fill the American papers should be enough to convince, anyone of this. ''And." added Max O'Kcll. **as for an Anglo-American alliance, let me tell you that it would instantly kill the American Government, who would propose or sanction it. The masses of American people are dead against it. ���'Nothing amuses me more than to see Americans making money in England by having the Stars and Stripes and the I'nion Jack waving together. How these Americans must laugh in their sleeves as they during the per- In Paris,'Canada's grain exhibit is most excellent, but its mineral display is deuce high. Canadians may not love the absinthe drippers, but that is no reason for not having our exhibit of minerals in the top stope of excellence. What Ma-xy Says An effort is being made in Spokane to repeal the law prohibiting the operating of money-paying slot- machines in that city. They should move their city to Sandon. and be free. It Will Pinch ove the English, judging from the wa.y their papers have treated the British over the present unpleasantness on the dark continent. Max O'Rell. the well-known French humorist, says that nearly all the Yankees are the same way. Maxy said this in London a few days ago: "You ask me. does America really sympathize with the Boers? Now. you want me to tell you the truth, and not to say pleasant John Keen believes in ;m ellieient civil service. He believes that government oli'teials should hold ollice just as long as they per- The French in j form their work in a satisfactory France do nol j manner, and should not be discharged when ihe Government party goes off shift. This is a. policy of the greatest good to the greatest number. Robert Green, believes in the greatest good to his friends. lie believes in ousting good men in order that some fellow who voted for him can have'a job. no matter whether the country loses or not, He believes in squandering the people's money in order to please his friends. 'When, a until pursues this course he is not broad The Beauti- Truth is a f | T* 4- U beautiful nieii- TUI I rUtn tal element, occasionally found in some newspaper offices, but not indigenous to political campaigns. Men in .the heat of campaigning often'forget their better natures and seek to frost their opponents by making statements often devoid of even an undershirt of cold facts. There' is John Keen for instance. The cry is raised that the mine owners are putting up the money to push him through the lines into the arena, of political power. The howl also goes up to high heaven that he was the ebony complected gentlenntn in the fence when that small bind of" patriots got together in Kaslo and vivesect- ed the voters' list. By turning the X ray 'of truth 'upon these matters we' find that the mine owners are not ' putting up the material for John's election expenses, and that since he came into the veldt several of them have retreated behind .the kopje of indifference and are quietly dropping rocks of discouragement across his tra.il. thinking that he comes out too boldly in his declaration on the eight hour question. Perhaps' these disgruntled piutes think that the soft effeniinaney of Bob Green's gentle and .inoffensive nature would lie more plastic in their hands than the virile and aggressive disposition of John Keen. Then that affair about the voters' lists. It is true evidently that sonic of the men who undertook to revise the list were actuated by motives oilier than the pure love of their fellow man. Probably some of them were burning with a. desire to commit political rape upon.this riding, and thought that they could do it by ruthlessly, stabbing the names that" would be opposed to them. John Keen was at that assembly of brilliant intellects and in his pocket he had a list of nearly .'100 men who had bought miners' licenses from him. He had this list with him. not to destroy any June 9, and my right hand is all shuk to pieces, my stomach is full of whiskey boils, my cay use is dead, and I have bed 17 fights in Kaslo, Sandon and other camps over'these durned candidates. Talk about relieving Mafeking! If I don't get relieved soon my name will be Dennis, Kane or something like that."' The gospel mill editor handed him the office bottle of lemonade, and after Moses had swallowed a few drops he rose up and went forth a new man, .while the bull-dog laughed and the prints up-stairs clicked their types in unison to the words of the Dutch- poet : When der lection in o'er, IJnd (let* ballots counted oud, , Keen vill bav tier flore, Vlu'le. Kane iind Green vill Be. up der Hpoud. ' KKOM TDK .KDITOlt'S Itl'PICK STOPK. British Columbia will be'relieved on June !). Trusts are the fad of the day. Three men are looking for .a public, one in the Slocan. A .lap or Chinaman never give the fact away when they are cigar-' ette fiends by their fingers. Crime'is on the increa.se' in the territories. Thanks to the ever increasing foreign population. Mann & Mackenzie call their railroads the Canadian Northern. This is one form of gratitude, although their trains would run as smooth under any other name. Paper is paper these da.ys. and we have been waiting two months for an eastern mil! to fill our order. Some capitalist should start a mill at Golden. There is plenty of spruce around that village. Having dug- Passed ���*Tf_ Ti i. through a dvkc I he DyKe 0f hard times we have again caught the. pay chute, as will be noticed fry the increased size of our workings this May morning. The time is opportune. To-day is a national bolida.y. Male- king has been relieved, and. up and down the eternal sun-tipped empire sounds of joy and revelry.are, heard. Just the time for us to expand and flag the capital that is waiting to delve into our Slocan kopjes when the shell and siege era has passed away in far-off Africa.. We hope that the hum of prosperity will continue to increase in this glorious mineral-touched Kootenay of ours, and that many decades will wheel along the pike of time before we have to again cut this paper in two. and live on three meals a. day in order to keep our financial head above the cruel and chilly'waves of adversity. '^6 6 Parisian bankers are finding some difficulty in procuring money, and have sent to New York for the loan of lo millions. We are pi eased that they did not write to us. We could not accomodate them, a-s we had to buy a ticket from S. railway the other day. th K. ,x Have you re aid THE LEDGE? How do you ^ ��^ like it �� o Mud and w��-���������"���-���"���<��� .--�� . letters lor Bouquet a gams running a- newspaper. many and our style of Some contain literary mud. while bouquets of sweet words are in ot hers. Here is one of 1 lie mud variety written by a human ass named W. ( '���. King who wastes ink on son.ie kind of a rag in the hay country, of which liberty of the press, liberty of thought and the other liberties of perdition, condemned and rejected by the pontiffs. "Fifth���You must also reject and condemn liberalism and also modern progress and civilization as being false progress and false civilization. "Sixth���You must utterly abominate civil marriage and regard it as pure concubinage. ������Seventh ��� You must also condemn and reject the interference of the civil authorities in any ecclesiastical affairs so much in vogue nowadays. "FJghth ��� Finally you must hold t he belief that the church b\ Bran<Ion is tin* centre. Muslellow who. although a King by name, is! origin has a divine and supernatur- evideni.ly a deuce hy nature, <,b-i a-1 authority, and is moreover sti- ta-ined a copy of our paper by mi things merely because they are present? Then I reply.absolutely. Wherever I went in America., outside the -smart set' in New York. I found opinion strongly opposed to you. "A public lecturer has. perhaps, unusual opportunities for discovering what people really think. In my lecture on John Bull���the same lecture, by the wa.y. which I have continually delivered in this country��� I illustrated my points by reference to the Boer war. I pointed out that John Bull's little foible 'fs | is self-sufficiency, and his willingness to lake on the whole world in enough to represent a crossroad, let alone a. rich district like the Slocan. Green is docile and pleas- tint in his talk, but the gray matter in his upper stope pinches to a knifeblade seam when it conies to legislating for the greatest good to the greatest number. ! , ., ��� ., ,, ��� .��� i , .alight, if it wished. Then I went ��� . j penor to the civil n-id honties. And: ^ lie lieaiinlui fake and 1 bought we wanted to exchange with him. This is what In writes : ������If sen I as an exchange, pb-ase | itself from the slate. Children discontinue it. for I do noi like the! must be brought up in the above flippant Yankee tone of Ihe sheet. ; views, condemning whatever the and I should not like it to be see,, j church condemns. And children in my office, even on the Moor." i "1IIS< ���"' ''duea-led solely in Catholic schools by genuinely Catholic teachers, and not on any account in iinsectarian or mixed schools, placed. He should sit down on the, ^1,-;,.), ar(. strictly forbidden by the copy of our paper, and endeavor to j church.'' reject and condemn the doctrine j(l11 1�� Oeseriix that ihe church should submit to : m his character-���his utter lack of the slate, or thai the church is in ; suspicion. I showed how he al- Mi-inciple or thought to */l��'f d<' Mowed the Afrikander Bomb an organization wholly opposed to We leel this kind. sorry for a poor freak of 11 is brains must be mis-! British dominion, to develop undisturbed in his own colony. "When I spoke of the natural 'sympathy all people felt for a liltle nation lighting a great power. I was .always cheered, but when I went on lo say 1 hat such sympathy did The British (Joverninenl proposes to appoint representatives from each colony to be members of the Privy Council. Fach appointment would last seven years, and life peerages would be conferred upon them. Here is-an excellent opportunity for Joe Martin to get in and drill in case he falls into the sump mi the 0th of .]i\\u\ New Denver looked like ;i military posl last week, judging from the many I 'nion Jack.- lhal were IIi 1-1 ing wii h 1 he breeze. This week il again looks like a cow camp or pastoral sccm-rv adjacent to a- cheese factory. man's franchise, but to see its far as laid in his power and knowledge that no name should be unjustly tampered with. This does not look a-s though Keen was the deadly enemy of every man who hits the drill, or earns his daily tender beefsteak by honest toil. Just the ve- \ev^\ if you take the trouble to think, instead of swallowing reports without calling for facts. The Great Northern railroad is likely to be using Crow's Nest Pass coal, before long. What a snap this province gave away, when parted with such a valuable assi it as Ine coal around I ���erme. Hard on Moses "1 wish thesi elexshuns wen over." said Powder Moses a-s he shoved out* olliet door open the other day. and stuck his mud collectors upon our Fg'.vp- tianottoina.il. "What is the nia-t- iioxt vou think so? It. isn't so tinu'li a qucscion of how earnest one is in his advoctcy of the cause, of what he considers the best political (.-iiiididate,, but it is oi verv great importance to know what amount of .backbone the, candidate has to carry out- his pledges. The election of this man or that, is neither going to make or break the, Slocan. The. Slocan is bigger than all of them combined and will lie, ttir'M'ng out its millions wh.cn. all of ns are laid beneath the daisies, hut these points should be considered in deciding* what, candidate to vote for: What is the, record of the respective candidates as public servants:-1 Which one is better able to do his duly as a legislator; which can 'best assist the laboring men,-business men and capitalist, each of whom are doing* their share to develop the country, without injury to either, ft is nonsense to sav the interests of the laboring- man rests with one, candidate and the interests of the capitalist with the other John Keen will help the, laboring* classes as faithfully as Bob Green. Bob Green wii I not impair the interests of capital any more than will .John Keen. Both will do their duty to the limit of their ability and no more. The great difference is in the. capacity of the. num. The interests of the. Slocan in particular and Kootenay in general are of far greater importance, than the, interests of the mine worker or mine operator and the man who sets himself up as the champion of one against the. other is too small to be. a legislator. The eight, hour day is here to stay. That is a i foregone conclusion. What we want now is a man of vim, courage and intellect; with a thorough knowledge of the country and its needs, and a determination to get what he's sent after. A <1 vert isiiif-;. The following very sensible remarks on advertising are taken from one of our American exchanges: One should advertise all the time. Only when one, can claim the undying friendship and devotion of enough people to give ail the trade wanted can one stop advertising. In this period of dollars and cents and ephemeral friendship, such conditions can never exist, therefore one must keep everbis ingly at it. One cannot eat enough in a week to last a year. One cannot advertise on that plan either. Advertising is business (ood, It must be administered regularly and in doses to (it the size of the business, ' The first few times an advertisement appe*irs, the people commence to notice it, provided it has any attractiveness whatever. Afv.e.r a time it occurs to t.'ieiii there must be something ter -ai< I the church editor, as Ik Chicago has a population of L'.(100.(1(10. This beats New Denver till lo fragments. quietly absorbed another chew tobacco. ..[[ere nior n two wee it, anything advertised so persistently, and pretty soon they are in a buying frame of mind. It is a consiant dripping that wears away the stone, and it. is constant advertising that <>! brings business. Seventh Year. THE LEDttbl NEW DENVER, B.C., MAY 24. 1900. GEORGE T, KANE'S PLATFORM. To the Electors of the Slocan Kiding* of the West Kootenay Electoral District: Having received the unanimous nomination of the Liberal Convention held in Sandon on the 18th day of May, 1900, and deeming it to be absolutely necessary in the interest of the people of this Hiding* that there be elected a representative pledged to the principles of justice and good government and working in accordance with the platform of the Hon. Jos Martin, as enunciated by him, and pledged to the support of the Government and believing that the interests of the toiling masses are paramount to all others I do hereby pledge myself to advance and protect the interests and rights of labor and to support the platform of the Hon. Joseph Martin, which is published below. But as the, causes which led to the insertion in the. said platform of .���'���'the clause relating to the plebiscite in reference to the Eight- Hour Law no longer exist the Hon. Joseph Martin and hie colleagues have, , now declared that no such plebiscite shall'be taken, and in this I heartily concur. I, therefore, have the honor to solicit your votes and influence. Respectfully submitted, I am, Gentlemen, yours sincerely, Gk6. T.'Kanw Pi,atrium of tub Hox Joseph" Mautix. I..'The abolition of the S200 deposit for candidates for the Legislature. 2. The bringing into force, as soon as arrangements can be completed, of the Torrens Registry system. :i. Tbe redistribution of the. constituencies'on the basis of population, ai- lowinu- to sparsely populated districts a proportionately larger representation than to populous districts and cities. ���I. The enactment of an accurate system of Government scaling of logs, and its rigid enforcement. 0 The re-enactment of the disallowed Labor Regulation Act, JSUS, and also all tlie-statnes of 1899, containing anti- Mongolian clauses if disallowed, as proposed by the Dominion Government.. i'.. To take a. firm stand in every other possible, way with a view of discottrag- ging the spread of Oriental cheap labor in this Province. 7. To provitle for olHciariiispection of all buildings, machinery and works, with a view to compelling the adoption of proper safeguards to life and health. S. With regard to the. Eight-hour Law the Government will continue to enforce the^law as it stands. A n immediate enquiry will be. made by the Minister of Mines into all grievances put forward gin connection with-its operation, with a view of bringing about an amicable sett lenient. If no settlement is reached the. principle, of the referendum will lie. applied and a vote taken at the geiiei al election as to whether the law shall lie repealed. If the law is sustained bythe"vote if will be retained upon tlie statute book with its penalty clause. If modifications can be made removing any of the friction brought about, without impairing- the principle of the law, they will be adopted. -If the. land of Vancouver. With respect to other parts of the Province, to proceed to give to every portion of it railway connection at as early a date as possible, the railway, when constructed, to be operated by the Government through a Commission. bi. A railway bridge to be constructed in connection with the Kootenay railway across the Eraser river, at, or near, New Westminster, and running powers given over it. to any other railway company applying for the same under proper conditions. 17. In case it is thought at anytime advisable to give a bonus to any railway company, the same to be in cash, and not by way of a land grant; and no such bonus to be granted except upon the condition that a fair amount of the bonds or shares of the company be transferred to the Province, and effective, means taken to give the Province control of the freight and passenger rates, and provision made against such railway having any liabilities against it except actual cost. 1.8. To take away from the LieirLen- ant-Governor-in-Couueil any power to make substantive changes in the law, confining the jurisdiction entirely to matters of detail in working out the laws enacted by the Legislature. 19. The establishment of an institution within the Province for the education of the, deaf and dumb. 20. To repeal the Alien Exclusion Act, as the. reasons justifying* its. enactment no longer obtain. 21. An amicable settlement of the dispute with the, Dominion Government ns to Deadman's Island, Stanley Park and other lands, and an arrangement with Mr. Ludgatc. by which, if possible, a sawmill industry may be established and carried on on Deadman's Island, under satisfactory conditions, protecting the. interests of the. public. 22. Proper means of giving technical instruction to miners and prospectors. pump the Water, out of it and divide the result. The lake was a mile long and a third of a mile wide and of a mean depth of 20 feet, and it took six months of steady pumping, night and day, to remove the water. The. pumps were huge affairs having an 18- inch intake and a 2-foot discharge. and so great was .the suction that sometimes live geese swimming on the lake would be drawn into the pipe and discharged fluttering into the sluice, that carried the water into Car]) river, ha.ving suffered'- no more harm than the loss of a few feathers. When the water was finally removed, the deepest parts of the lake bed were found covered with a deposit of from 10 to 20 feet of very thin mud. This substance was too thick to go through the pumps and too thin to be loaded upon carts and carried away. And. although time was given it. yet the sun was powerless to dry if .up. A coating would readily form over the top. but when this w;ts penetrated the same deposit of diluted mild \va.s found below7. Celebrated engineers were called from abroad to- devise a way to get rid of the stuff. .Heavy iron ea.issons full of tiny perforations were made and sunk to the lake bottom, the theory being that the water would run into them, whence it could be pumped a.way ; but the theory did not prove good. The mud came through the little holes with the water and" filled the great receptacles. Finally, when all other expedients had failed, the Cornish in on of the iron mines proposed to let the mud run into the mines, a little at a time, and then to hoist it to the surface in buckets by means of the regular skips on which the ore is elevated. This plan was followed, and gradually the mud disappeared. And thus ca.me the last of what was once one of the most beautiful little sheets of water resting among the hills of upper Michigan. Its' site is now occupied by the, smudgy implements of a great iron industry and three companies of sordid grabbers after wealth are fighting in the courts over the deposits which the lake's glassy surface once concealed.���M i u n e a p o 1 i s Journal. Grace Bkkokk Mkat.���The deacon: "O Lord, ef (lis yere chicken be stolen, we hope you will oberlook de fact, fo' it's almighty small, almighty tough, an' almighty inadequate ter go 'round."��� Life. ; , For Sale���The Taylor House, Enterprise Landing, one of the best hotel locations on Slocan lake. Apply to C. B. Taylor, New Denver. New Denver Transportation & Light Go. PALMA ANGRIGNON, PROPRIETOR. General Braying: Mining Supplies and Heavy Transportation a Specialty. Saddle Horses and Pack Animals. Feed Stables at. New Denver. EB. Dunlop BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER. Children's lliiir Cutting a Specialty. SL<��OAX CITY. ,- - B. C. F. L. CHRISTIETl.L.B. BARRISTER, SOLICITOR, Etc. Direct connected air compressors are j in active use in various mining plants'! xvuiAiyi in Colorado, California and Utah. j icvery K,-,iay Hl silver!.,,,. NOTARY PUBLIC, SANDON. B. C . MURRAY & CO., TORONTO Silk and Dress ITED To Builders: W you want Dimension Lumber,- Rouo*h and Dressed Lu Qiber, Coast and Kootenav .' ��� ���f Ceiling and Flooring, Double and Dressed Coast Cedar.. Rustic, Shiplap, Stepping-. Door Jambs, Pine and Cedar Casings, Window Stiles. Turned Work, Brackets, Newel Posts. Band-sawinp;. Turned, Veranda Posts. Store Fronts, Doors, Windows or Glass, write to��� Nelson Saw & Planing Hills, Limited Nelson, B.C. N07lCEr~~~ ��������� ���! a r. mr�� a-M-numi n r. jo-hatm tea im njcnxumrau x arn i: io Diisi'oi lki>. 'Washington.���A lot of Michigan la.wvers have been here arguing lief ore the supreme court over the ownership of the bed of Lake Angeline up on the Marquette iron range. So far as the merits of the dispute are concerned, they have no particular interest for anybody but the squabbling contestants: but running through the dry-as-dust arguments of the lawyers, as distinctly traceable as the blue silk thread through a dirty piece of paper money, there was the curious story of how nature was despoiled and Lake Angeline removed from existence. The three companies owning the shores of the lake, and consequently laying claim to its bottom, under the laws of Michigan, was the Pittsburg and Lake Angeline, the Cleveland Iron Mining company and the Lake Superior Iron Mining company. About ten years ago thev found that rich deposits of Just Received Several varietie.s of Kalian Keekers. hVflmin.i*- Chairs, etc Tlie tinesf, .���vi-i'slimvii in ihis sect icn. Vnil if llilVcil lew (iu'l'll'S t" Spare Villi (������*.!! inM mm heitcr tli.-Lii iuvc.-i il. in .me ni these handsome (-io-Cnn.-.���- A rape] Mail Order service connects out-of-town customer.*- with this store's Iwcntv departments. We send you samples and cafraloa-ne,' also jriveunv s .eciai ni form.litio n you may require. We esfimate'f,h'e c.'st ot your new frown; send y,,n lull particular* as (o si vie Send name and address for Catalogue. and 'o * general, look after .-onr interests in a thoroughly satisfactory maimer.- Samples ���f Silks.' Dress Oo ,<|s. Linens, l 'amliri-s Muslins ���. v'addn. hnep. ^ I '��"^-t" l'�� V'"'* we ^"<1 sai.,,,1.- of everjlhln-J liar,",. 1 !e s'am,ded ri .uiv .Klines-m Canada. Sha, I *.*>v send y a, a rant*".-'? ADDRESS MAIL OKDKK DKPA K'TMKNT W. A. MURRAY & CO., Limited 17 to 27 King St. East, 10 to 16 Colborne St.. Toronto. Is a simple and efficient feature of the U-ENDKON BICYCLES for 1900. Few machines in its class have met 'with such general commendation. Goto any Gendron Agencj ���they're everywhere���and study the special features in this season's models, particularly the chainless. Write for Catalogue. CANADA CYCLE & MOTOR CO.. Limited VOTICK IS HERICBV GIVEN thai I intend lv ;\ apply at the next mcetine* of ihe Board of License Commissioners for the Slocan Dist.ici for lea vc lo transfer the hotel license now held by me at Slocan .(unction lo S. A. Mc-Mannis. W. If LAMBERT. sli-iciiu .T'lictioii. May n, limn. CERTIFICATE OF IMPROVEMENTS SHOSHONK Mint-nil Claim. SituatK in the Slocan M.i'iiin(r Division of West Kootenay District. Where located: Adjoining ihe Chambers and Derby,, on the out I) Fork "f Carpenter ereek. 'PAKE NOTICE thai I. \V. S. Drewrv. Free l Miner's Certificate No. J.'tm'iS for myself, J. C, Bolander. Free Miner's Certificate No.' l'lKS-l, and Charles McNicholl. Free -Miner's Certilicatc No., ���.'li-lii.-V intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply to the Minnie Recorder for a Certificate 'of Improvements, for (lu- purpose of oblitining a Crown Grunt of the above churn. And further lake notice that acliou under section .'17. must be commenced before the issuance of such Certiiicarc'of Improvements. Dated this loth day of Mav. A. D. limo. *\V. S. DREWRY Head office, Toronto, Ont. c. (. vote is against ir the law will be re- | icon can nndei pealed. 9. To re-est-'ihlish the Loudon A<i*ciicy of British Colmnlii;*, and to take every effective means of lji*ino*iiio* before tlie British public the advautao*e.s of tine Province, as a place forthi* prolitahle investment of capital* 10. The. retainhii>* of the resources of the Province as an asj-er lor the benefit of the people, and taking* effective measures to prevent the alienation o the public domain, except to actual sellers or lor actual bona fide business, or industrial purposes putting* an end to the practice of .speculating* in connection with the same-. ft. The tikiiii*.* of act ire measures for the syste n'atic exploration of the Province. 12. The borrowing of money for the purpose of providing roads, trail"! and bridges, provided that in every case the money necessary to pay the interest and sinking fund in conduction with the loan shall be provided by additional taxation so as not to impair the credit of the Province 1:3. In connection with tlie construction of Government roads and trails, to pi ovule, bv the employment of competent civil engineers and otherwise that the Government money is expended upon Some system which will be advantageous' to the general public, so that the old system of providing- roads as a special favor to supporters of tin- Government may lie entirely discontinued II. I'o keep the. ordinary annual *-'*��� penditure within the ordinary annual revenue, in order to preserve, intact (he credit of the Province, which is its he.-! | asset | i">. To adopl a ���system '"if Go venniieii! ' constlT'iefion and operalioii of raii'.\-ays. j and iinmediaUily to proc.iu-d with the j coiistruclioii of a rail^'ay on the south i >iile. of liie Praser river, connecting- the i ('oast with ! ho. Kootenay district. wjtii I i'he. uiidivi*slaniliii��* tha.l unless the other railways now constructed in the Prov- iiiee yive f.-.ir conneclioiis. and make eipiitalile joint freight and passeii,u-er arran^eiiieiits, the Province, will eon thine, this line to the eastern botmdarv Nothing prettier for the mope MAKE!-!. New Denver's I-'uniittu DKTKOET Mineral Chum... Cl.UMJ.ANT Mineral Claim. TII I.ST I, K Mineral Claim. MAK1JV S. Flt.-VCTIONAI. Mineral Clainr Sidune In the iiioi-an Milling' Division of West Ko .temiy disiriet. Whe e located: (Jn. How-son Creek. 'PAKE NOTICE that I. Ilerhert T. Twiu-i.% 1 a".ent for l.k-or.e-e \V. F-luf-'hos. Free .Miner's Cert hit-ate No. r.ltiTo.and The Scottish Colonial' (roh! Fields Ltd.. Free Miner's Certilicate No. l.lSod, intend, sixty days from the date hereof, to apply lo the Mininti Recorder lor Ceritlieates of Improvements, for the purpose-of obta.iniiiir ;i Crown Orunt of ea-h of ihe above claims. And !-'i-ther take notice I hat -ictidii. under section 37,must he connneiiced before the issuancc- of such Cerlilieates ol Improvemenis. Dated this ]7ih dav of Mav, lnoa HERBERT T. TWIOG. I.akeview, baki-vii-w ' Krsu-i ion Alphii. and Kopje l'l-oel ion >| im-rsil Claims. Situate in the Slocan Minin.s Divi.-ion ol'West Kootenay I'l-M-if* Where located: About one and niie-lnili mile.? south of New Denver. ���"PAKE Ni'iTICE Thai I. W.S. Drewrv. actinir .1. as ae-aut for the Northwest Aliniiie Svnrti- cate. Limited, l-'o-e Miner intend, *i.\iv days (.'erlilicate No. lliil.li;. nun tin- date hereof FRESH EGGS - Choice Lemons, 30c dozen Swift's OMAHA HAMS, lCe 1.50 lbs. Chickens for Saturday. I have, a few Sinj.:er Scwiui.*- Alaeliines in-ell on eas\ terms. ^.[.d-.-ss ��� New Denver THE RUBENS VEST D. IVlcLachlan's New Denver. MAINLAND and BRITISH LION Are the best known ( Wars in B. t.'. Thev PATENTED The Rubens Vest is the BEST undershirt ever devised for infants. No BUTTONS, PINS, or STRINGS required. No pulling over the head tc worry small children. Its use is recommended by the most eminent, physicians for its efficient protection of lungs and abdomen. For sale by all leading Dry Goods stores. SBDBBDBBaBBnEBmfiBBl to apply to the Miuin-j' Recorder lor a certificate- ..I improvements, for tin- pui-poM- of obtain nifr a Crown -.-rant ol e.u-h of the above claims. _ And further take notice that acti-m.under section :;v ii.tist be commenced before the issuance ol'such certitieate of iiu'ir.ivemeuts. , Dated this :id day of May. l'Ki.. W.S. DIlFWRy. has reached the high favor it enjoys today in wheeldom. rue important new features and improvements adopted in the 1000'models will bring* it fresh laurels as among- the. hi^h-oradt* class Agents everywhere. Look one up and study the 'Red Bird, or write for catalogue. ' ^ Agent wanted. CANADA CYCLE ei .MOTOR" CO Ltd Write for catalogue. -Toronto. Out. Dolly Vanlei! JUKI }'J!lS|n'|) Claims. Mineral iwjfffrr "S 9 8t j --ituale in the Slocan Miami;- Division of West | Kootenay Disttiet. Where located: At the j he;:.! ol WiDon creek ami Xorth Fork of ('ai-|ienler. 'PAKi'. Xfi-nt.-;-: tii.it i, ch-s, ,\i,,or...,,f K-tsio- ! 1 aet-iii-.'as nL-'cur for .1. M Mirtin. !>'. M.C. -il.MOl ,\. Alfred R.il.dnsoii. !���'. M. ('. i:-i 71S B -\ W. Wri.eht. Free Jliner'sCeMilie.-in- Xo. B.l.*iT.'.u and Williau.! A-hner- \i*nold V M. ('-. Xo. I'i-iTH A . intend, sixly da-,-s Irolii the rlaic hereof, to apply to the Minim*' Keeorder for a Cert-ificiiti-.- of Improvements. f<>r tin- imrposi- of rihi.-iinini;- ;i Crown (Jrun! of eacji ot the above claims And further take notice that action, under section .'17. must be commenced before the iss.na nee of Mich (.'erlilicate of Improvements. Dated ihis *i.*.ili das- of April. ltino. ���fa CHAS. MiiDRK. I'. L. S. E J. K. CLARK, The spechil Ladies' model is a light wheel��� an easy running wheel ���a well-balanced wheel���a 22-pound wheel-���a graceful wheel. See the skeleton gear case���option of a combined coaster and brake at, a slight additional cost. Agent wanted. Write fin* catalogue. CANADA CYCLE A .MOTOR CO. Head ollice, Toronto, Canada. Ltd CANADIAN ANDSOOLINE. Hetween ATLANTIC & PACIFIC The direct route from The one-piece crank and axle in the i Kootenay Country -I i N ES to all iioints Last and West. and sold, by all first-class dealers. WM. TIETJEN, .Mamilaciurei*. V.\Ncoi:yi:i: gor ANDjViiNSNG Reports, l-Jxaiuinatioiis and Management. NEW DENVER C Is an important feature, and is acknowledged does away with cotter pins and overeonies al tolore experienced hy loose crank--* prevents si hy must riders. It I the dil'lieuliies here aeeidents and break age. 1900. Study the feature, in the popular Cn-iadian made mnnnt f-'i* \\ri*ite i'ov catalogue. Airent wnnied, CANADA (IVCI.K ^ .MOT<)| I lead ot'lice, Toronfo, Canada. CO.. I Ail First-Class Sleepers on all trains froin Revelstoke and Kootenay I.dg. Tourist Oars pass .Medicine. Hat. daily for St, Paul; Sundays and Wednesdays for Toronto: Fridays for Alontroal and Hosron. Same ears pass Revelstoke "in- day earlier. n. a. sc. ;oti(*k To 'iVIM'IAL LAND SI' h'VKVOK and MIX.INC KNiUNKKi; Slocan, IB. ( '..!Tc-'pi.|ldencc helled. i/oni II p. * ... (I Vi Jll-'ll...-. 11 1/ f<> ': 5ir��!:||'H' I U-ii) ||, ,u --,.|| :-i!i... Kilrn.-, K .dak. ,-,l ,\ I:i��� ��� i��� i��� ���.-1ti pricr. Si ml :'..r oriees mi an . tliiui;- \o.il w.i hi ��� e S'ri.'ATIIKA l.'X. Ka.-I.i. \i. (.' j I'l'-: I-. (���'i.\Nt-:<TI(i.\S ���l.'.ki- -i mi KIM ill i ill.- ..(.juts. I '��� n\..| <*. S;.; i i: ���_��� ,.t: Dailv !.'.:.;ok lv X.D.-:.\-er I.-Il:: ar ex . Suii.l.VlOh i^aaies' Uliainie !.~i .N (lo .\v - v;-;- i l:..|'N I.Ai.-V CorNTCY. I v X.I ��-u\ er L-lii: ai I; I:. 2CsS ' < li AM- en i::.:i.')-. \ \ a ne alb '������ ol lie ' rovinee 'roper connect ion with such Kootenav railway to the Is- Will iind tin Arlington Hotel a pleasant place 11> stup al when in Sloean City, ('K'l'lllXG & HKXDKi-SOX. I'reprietm-s. liosim Bloc Angfngnqn The Leading p\ r-i- r-1 o- C^ C"'" f~>- New Denver, The models arc eonsi I'tieied on ��� Ik- iip-si, ad ��� iess jirineiple - hiuiiest ���.������rach- in maierials embrace all fin* iniprovcniems wliieli liiv Harris io tin* high f'avi.r it. r.priis. c-enei a IP,-. ai*--i models of v/mec ;md design: thev ha*- e i imjiroved l aiif'.Ie har and seal post adji'isiiin-ii:: admits of greatest case, in mounting ami disi equipped. A special feature on chain wheels, and brake. Wrhc lor eafalogne. Agt-nf wa CANADA r\C ic a ot i I ic el:;! ill- ��� '������ liiannl'.-iiM ore. and '��� .need i lie. .Ma>������'.��� V I'he ladies' eha inios e s-if'ciy d: ess gmird. : frame cmisl rnei inn tDitiii::-: |icrlee!!\* I he ecu; biiii-d con.-ter ;.< d. A- MOTOi: Ci )., Ltd \<e w i-- l'l:.'M SAM.. ..\ |)en\'er ('. S(k' X I'.MVel- i.,|- ;,; aiid 'utl im'..,-,,,: .<���;. ! :. _..-i:: ,, p '.. lv LAKia-'i'T. ���,_���, And. i-.--.il. 'I' :-av I*; A_-:.. V Ve-,v | lelivi'l . .: : . N.-ls.m. iiV'-r ! ba i office, Tor 'OH C.-ni.-id; ATLANTIC STEAMSHIP TICKETS, I'm and frmn l'!ur-.;ie -n ;, .in-- v:;i ('anadi.-ii and America n line-. \e|'lv i-.r .-ailin'- iai.--. rate-, tickets and full i o!.. r; 11; i; i ��� > 11 !������ ,-in\i'. K\* affclit (if��� '������ ''��� oAKKK! ('. 1'. I.'. A-,-lit. N.-u Lei,v..i. W.I* K. Cuniiniii--. ,L s. -. l;i..lV .:: 6 THE LEDGE, NEW DEIS'VEH, B.C., MAY 24, 1900. Seventh Year GOLD IN At'STKALlA. A Colony Worthless in 'lKKr> Now duces !���*.�����.>,000,000 a Year. I'ro- Balla-rat, W. A.���No other mining enterprises on the Australian continent have for some years attracted so much attention as those in the colony of West Australia. . It was no** until fifteen years ago that gold was known to exist in this vast, region. All who had visited it could see little but desert plains, except a fringe, of fertility along the coast, and they did not believe that '.Vest Australia would ever lie turned to much account. But iii lsSo things began to boom in this unpromising laud, and in less than a year 2.000 men from far ami wide were gathered in the region where, gold had been'discovered.. This was in the Kimberley district, far north and too miles inland. A party of six men were out to see what they might Iind, and just'beyond the ���junction of the l'anto and Elvire rivers they found ��old, and in five days collected ten ounces of tbe precious dust. This first discovery, howwver, did not'prove brilliantly successful for the alluvial gold was not very plentiful, the district could be reached only by a trying desert journey and provisions went up to starvation prices. The field was finally abandoned to a large extent, though fair **��- turns are obtained by the miners who remained there. Nearly all the great gold discoveries in this colony have been purely accidental. One day in 1.888, a lad, picking up a stone to throw at a crow, observed a speck of gold in it. This* was the discovery of the Mallina gold field. Apout the same time four large nuggets were fairly stumbled over in what is now known as the Pilbara mining district. Various other discoveries were made up to 1892, when the finding of the gold in the now famous Coolgardie region attracted the atttcution of the whole, world. The best paying diggings previous to this time ware at Nannine, in the Mtirchison district, where a amall party of prospectors found gold, kept the'disco very quiet as long as possible and took out as much as 190 ounces of dust in a single day. The discovery of gold at Coolgardie was quite romantic. In May or Juno, 189*2, two prospectors, Bayley and Ford after a long and fruitless search in this wild country, picked up a nugget weighing half an ounce. They were in camp at a native well which they called Coolgardie. A little later in the day they picked up a seven-ounce nugget and in a few weeks gathered about 200 ounces of nuggets. By this time their food supplies were exhausted, and after going to Southern Cross to replenish them they returned to Coolgardie without mentioning their discovery. Good luck still attended their further search. One morning they discovered a quartz ledge, that was full of nuggets, and that day, using a hatchet to break down the rock, they knocked out 500 ounces of gold. It was not possible for them much longer to conceal the news of their bonanza, but the facts were not learned until they had secured 2,000 ounces. The reason thev could no longer keep their secret was that when they needed supplies they had to pay miggets for them, and.when the miners know this they are bound to find out where the nuggets come from. At the present time Coolgardie is a sown of over 1.0,000 inhabitants. It is one of the great gold-mining centres in the world. A few months ago a mining and industrial exhibition was held at Coolgardie and the finest specimens of auriferous ores ever collected were there But Coolgardie is now surpassed by some other diggings in the colony. In June, 1.898, Hannan's, now known as Kalgoorlie, was brought to light. A few prospectors, among them a man named Hannan, camped at Mount Charlotte and were searching for water for their honees. While thus engas��d, Mr. Hannan found gold, and in three days the party secured 1 DO ounces. This was the beginning of the. richest gold fields in West Austaalwi, and at present, from lo.ooo to I���"���.,<mid people are making a good living at and around the city, which has electric, illumination and boasts one of the linest hotels in the southern hemisphere. Then in .lune, 1*9-1, the Loudondery district was brought to light, and, as usual, its discovery was purely accidental. Six men had been prospecting fur-months without any success and they were returning, discouraged, to Coolgardie. < >n their way they camped for the night in the bush and next morning a quartz specimen was found j This bit of good lock induced tln-ni to; look carefully around and they soon j discovered a splendid quartz ledge, or j reef as they call it. and that day they! knocked out I .noo ounces of gold, and [ in a few days had "i.ono ounces, or, in j other words, gold to the value of about j 1.30,0��i. . j But a still more sensational Iind was j coming, and this was Nations mine. I n ���' lily fiector named Dunn set out from Coolgardie and a.ftP.r travelling about 2s utiles he came across a large h'd-_:e ap pearing above the ground, which, strange to say, no one had previously observed. After testing the rock he secured a large specimen of, which-was found to contain 800 ounce* of gold, worth 812,800. He kept his mouth shut, went quietly to work, dug out $60,000 worth of gold and then unobtrusively returned to Coolgardie with most of the metal hidden in the pack saddle of his camel. He placed the gold hi the bank, applied for a lease and hurried back as quietly as possible, Sonif way, however, the news got out and over "i00 men left Coolgardie on the lucky miner's trail. There was some difficulty in restraining them from rushing tlie whole diggings, but no actual disturbance occurred. The property was afterward sold for .���?7:-Sf),u00. Many other discoveries of lesser magnitude have been made and new finds are continually occurring. Some of the new locations, as at Dundas, l.awler's, Mount Margaret and many other places, are very rich and give brilliant promise for the future Thure is every prospect that West Australia will long continue, to he one of the greatest mining centres of the world A few figures will show the present prosperity of this industry in this formerly despised colony. The gold output in 1890 was valued at only S-430,000. In 1898 it had risen to St9,nr>:-*,:-19-l-'. For the nine months ending Sept. 30, 1899, it amounted to 822,000,000. For the month of September alone it was $8,174.150, being more than $80,000 over the best previous monthly record. A KEJIARKABIiIS SUNK ACCIDENT IN INDIA. It seems remarkable that a mine, which has been so highly productive as the Champion Reef Cold Mine in the Colar Gold-field, should be so inadequately equipped as an accident which occurred there late in 1897 would indicate. It occurred in what is known as the trial shaft; a two compartment downcast shaft through which all workmen were obliged to descend or ascend, when entering or leaving the mine. Tha report for 189S of James Grundy, Inspector of Mines in India, which has been issued only recently, states that manholes in the ladder-way were 2 ft. by H ft. and 2 ft. by 2\ ft. The shaft had an inclination of from 04�� to 79c from the horizontal and was 225 feet deep. The manhole at the top of the shaft was fenced in, and the outlet was in charge of a watchman. The accident occurred or. a pay clay, when the men were accustomed to leave the mine at an earlier hour than usual. The watchman, it seem a, was a new man and was not acquainted with this, so that when the first native appeared at the top he prevented his leaving the ladder way. The men quickly accumulated in large numbers in the shaft; some attempted to pass one another, and the air quickly became vitiated by the blocking of the passage and the large number of lights burning. Some of the lights became extinguished and the crowd became a mass of almost exhausted human beings struggling on the ladders in a foul atmosphere, with many in the. dark. Some fell off the ladders, and in falling caused others to do so. The result was that 52 men were, found dead or dying. Owing to new regulations the matter was not reported to the Inspector of Mines of India, who believes that all the accidents that occur are not reported. SCIENCE: AND MINING. would be lost another 10 per cent, of the. energy. In general, losses of electrical power may be assumed at 7 per cent, in \ the generators, .1.0 per cent, in the line j f| ami 7 per cent in the motors. j Dimensions of a good assay furnace j may be: firebox. 16 inches long by 1.4 ; inches wide: height of lower muHfle j above grate bars, 11 inches: width of j firebox " at bottom of the 9x15 inch j muffle, 12 inches; width between muffles j of furnace walls, 8 inches; upper muffle, j oh inches above lower muffle; above j upper muffle opening to chimney, 1x10 j inches; one foot above muffle chimney,.| 9x9 inchas; space between rear end of.j muffles and furnace walks; 2 inches. I For a copper test, saturate a bead of i pftA salt of phosphorus���microcosm ic salt��� to ��� opalescence with magnesia. Thi�� bead when flamed will become white. The slightest trace of copper will show in the cold bead a rich rose-red coloring, if the bead is held in the fusing /.one. The strongest possible blowpipe flame must be used. The -.bead in an oxidizing flume, or when hot. is colorless. Metal- Established in Nete-m 1*3)) I am now on deck to tell my friends "I am still alive.*' My Stock is Up-to-Date My Prices are Right I Guarantee Quality I demand the Lakgbst and Latest stock in B. C, which I want you to know, and don't forget the place. Headquarters for Watches, Jewelery and Diamonds The Famous KARN Pianos EWING MACHINE Raymond Cabinets for.,. Wheeler & Wilson for ...... Domestic for . . . White for. Standard for........ As we only employ the most expert, watchmakers and jewelers, all work guaranteed. All orders by mail receive our tention, at��� lie copper, oi the most complex ore (-'''lM j *��r"*���*���*[ 1847 R0��Cr P'TOS' be used. One two hundred and fifty jp,/\ thousandth or a grain of copper wiiljiSj KniveH !-V��rkflaiul Spoons, .ilways on ha ... . ; W W Don't lorget the place, at��� ml wzw w��ci>* w!z>��f \ make a sliowiu<. What is known as the "life" of a boiler generally depends upon the amount of corrosion to which it is sub- i ~ " "" jeeteiL With good feed water, which j The total wealth of the world is so will neither corrode the metal nor cause j small in quantity that a large ac- tho deposit of a dangerous scale, and j cumulation-is practically impossible. The Jeweler, f" 1 NELSON,B. 0.fal 3X8X8X88 A quicksilver mine with oris per cent ore is susceptible of very profitable operation. An arastra can be made or bought. It is essentially a fine grinding machine, and ore exceeding three-fourth inch should not be fed to it. A flat rope will last as long as a round rope for mine hoisting, the difference being in the cost, of repairs, and flat rope having to be renewed about every six months, while a round rope often goes two years without any repairs. Mass means the quantity of matter in a body: energy, the amount of power stored in a body; velocity, the rate at which motion proceeds: kinetic force, the amount of force, that a moving body can exert in overcoming a resistance. Where a debt.er toils a person in whose, hands an account has been placed for collection, without objecting to the same, that, he will pay it, it. is a stating of account between the parties, and the amount bears interest from that date. In California, mining company directors can conduct the ordinary business of the company: but when it comes to selling, leasing, mortgaging or otherwise disposing of any part of the mining .;)-"Uiid of the company, or obtaining, except by location, any additional mining ground, such acts are. illegal unless ratified by a majority of the stockholders. In charging a storage battery one loses about 2(. per cent, of the energy the Wealth of; supplied to it; in operating a motor with 1894, a pros-! this current there is lost 10 per cent of i with care to keep the outside surface perfectly dry, a life of forty year* for a plain cylinder is not uncommon. With slow corrosion its life may he reduced to five years or less, with the additional inconvenience t*hat the pressure of steam which may be safely carried ia continually being reduced during its life One way of refining impure amalgam, which brings amalgam -1-00 and 000 fine up to 800, is by passing a strong blast- of air through the impure amalgam,the scum of oxydized copper and iron which gradually forms on the surface being- taken up by a weak solution of sulphuric, acid to which common salt is added from time to time. The process is quickened if a weak electric, current, enough to overcome the resistance of the liquid on the mercury, is used. The impurities in the amalgam immediately gather around the anodes, and gradually,pass into solution. If the current and acid solutions used are very weak, there, is no danger of attacking the mercury, and the refining is very quick. Troubles common to steam boilers are: 1 Tendency to accumulation of scale or mud on the plates over or near to the fire, causing "bagging" of plates, leakage of seams, and sometimes explosions. 2. Overheating of seama where they overlap, the metal at these points being of double thickness, especially when the seams are covered with scale. 3 External corrosion, commonly caused by dampness or rain or water percolating through a deposit of dust and soot, which is apt to contain sulphur combinations formed from the gases of burning coal. Such corrosion is especially apt to take.place when the boiler is cold. 4. Internal corrosion,generally due to feed water containing acid; but sometimes corrosion seems to be caused by very pure water containing dissolved oxygen, such as rain water. In mining* regions corrosion is probably the greatest danger to which boilers are exposed, next to negligence of attendants, and great care should always be exercised in frequent inspections, to learn whether or not corrosion is taking place Whenever it is found, steps should be at once taken, by treatment of the feed water or otherwise, to remove its cause. Much that is superficially regarded as wealth consists merely of privileges or powers to take from dav to day and from year to year a part of the continuous product of human labor. These powers have a value,and their value is estimated in coin or in the current terms of trade. But the real accumulations of wealth, bhe saved results of ��� past labor, are comparatively small. It was tlie First Presbyterian church Strulay school, and the teacher was endeavoring* to impress her class with tlie idea of the Lord's omniscience. "Why, just think," she said. "He knows the name of every one of you.'".Little Hazel Kirschensc-hlager leaned forward in her chair, with an expression of incredulity on her face. -'Well,''she said, after a moment, "perhaps he does know my name, but I'll bet he doesn't know how to spell it.'"���Cincinnati Enquirer. The interest of an expert affects the weight, but not the legality, of his testimony in a mining case. Fishing Tackle PHOTOGRAPHERS $ $ VANCOUVER and NELSON, B.C. <? The-largest and most complete stock in Kootenav. Prices away down. son Hardware Co., XJi/iSON, U. O Brewers of Fine Lager Beer and Porter���the best in the land. Correspond- solicited. Address��� R. REISTERER & CO., Nelson, B.C. We have Simihir tiling' in steam iind wilier lii.s--. STItAOHAN I5KOS*., PLUMBERS, &<*., XELSOX. li. C tli at lasts 5 to 12 years No Rubber to rot; on Cotton to tear NELSON HARNESS SHOP Hoiutqiiii i*f crs for Harness, Pack and Stock Saddles, Aparejos, Collars, Bridles Whips, etc. J. M. LUDWIG UAhU ST. NELSON. SLOCAN CITY A Wesson in Economics. Production, distribution and consumption of wealth are continuous. All the wealth of the world is taken from nature's storehouse by human labor, distributed according-to a multitude of complex laws, systems and customs that are constantly changing, and consumed in the satisfaction of human desires, returning- to the g-reat storehouse from which it was taken, to be again brought forth by human j labor. The ���jreat accummulations j which are sometimes the cause of complaint, are often purely imaginary. California Wine CoM -NELSON, B.C. Furnishes accommodations to the traveling public equal to any on Sloe.m Lake. Comfortable beds and tasty meals. The best brands of liquors and cigars on the market. NELSON Carry a complete stock of "PT1 T" T "jz? TXT T rTni and solicit orders from any part of the province. Write for prices. TH0S. LAKE, Prop. FRED J. SQUXEE Nelson, B. C. Merchant Tailor. Full Line of Suitings and Prouserino's always on hand. ASLO HOTEL Family & Commercial. Large And Comfortable Rooms Fitted with every modern convenience. Special protection against fire. Rates $2.50 and $3 per day. COCKLE & PAPWORTH, Proprietors. Get your Cigars at the Cabinet Cigar Store in Nelson, G. B. MATTHEW �������a****������ DR. MTLLOY, E ST ROSSLAND. OCR CORSET DEPART- MKNT IS ri'-Tn-DATK IN ALL STYLKS AND I'KICKS. | Fred. Irvine & Co., NELSON, B.C. Mil LA' INKRY���ALL KST STVLKS LOWKST PRICKS. I'M AT \Y <;k11 purchase from us and have them bv next day's mail, at ers iir^^^ Departmental Stores of the East? We have one of the nes and Fragrant i igars & hy send East for your Dry Goods when you prices AS LOW, IF NOT LOWER, than the lamest stocks in all departments in the West���Muttons, Sheetings, Linens, Dress Goods, Silks, White- we-ar. Corsets. Gloves, Ready-made Shirts, Costumes. Carpets, Floor Oilcloths, Linoleums, Curtains," Window Shades. Etc. Write for Samples and Our Prices. Write for Prices. what remains: in converting* the me. chanical ��ner��-y of the motor into dec-1 trieity for charoint;- the. hattery aj**ain I Our Stock is the Largest ill Kootenay SOLE AGENTS FOR lii'TTKRK'K PATERNS. Til!-: ONLY RKL1ABLK. �� Fred. Irvine & Co., NELSON, B. C. MKN'S FURNISHINGS A SPKC1ALTY. tmaat mum Seventh Yeah. THE LEDUcE. NEW DENVER, B.C., MAY 24 1900. RAPID COLLECTION OF WAGES. J{ EFFICIENT AND PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE XY COLL1CCTI0N OF DELINQUENT OWNERS'SHARE OF ASSESSMENT CS2CS2K:CS2K2K:K3 S3 ��3K2K2CXJK:S To the Electors of the Slocan'.Ridi-R Kootenay District: West CiENTLEMEN:��� Having- received a number of requisitions from the business men., miners and prospectors in our two cities and in the various towns in tin's Hiding, asking- me to consent to contest this Constituency al the fori booming Election, on the '.Mil .lime next, in the interest of -'good government." and. having been honored will) a resolution. ol' the Conservative Convention held at Sandon on i'he !>th of May in which (hey unanimously endorsed Ihe selection of myself by ihe business men. miners and prospectors. 1 have, therefore, great pica-sure in accepting (lie (ask of entering- the field in the inleresi of "good government." and promise, should I be elected, (o do my duty as laiihfully in the future, to (lie best interests of all (be community, as I have in the past during my (erni of ollice as a- Government ollicial here. The number of platforms before the Electors at -.present is legion, and for thai reason I do not propose' (o add (o them, but simply say that I agree will) the platform of (he Provincial Conservatives passed at New Westminster, and which has been freely considered hy the Conservatives of Slocan. Aly political cvec(\ is so we'll known by those who have dealt with me (luring the. last six years as .Mining Recorder that it would be superfluous to say any I hi rig about it were it not for the number of new residents in (he Riding who do.not know me so well, and for 1 heir sakes it'will perhaps be well to set it out: y Political Creed i. I believe that the people should be1 represented by giving" one member to a certain number of persons in cities, large manufacturing centres and extensive mining camps, and one member to a smaller proportion of persons in agricultural, fishing and cattle raising communities, and that women who are so inclined, should have equal rights with men at the polls. The Voters' Lists should have simpler and more efficient machinery employed to handle them, and all objections should be sworn to. 2. I believe that trails can be built in large numbers by prospectors under arrangement with Mining Recorders for application as assessment work. Many a sale has fallen through for want of trail accommodation for horses. Trunk roads should be built and well drained, at the expense of the Government, and companies'of free miners aided to extend them. A competent and efficient Road Inspector and Manager should be appointed for executing and organizing the work and taking charge of tools, etc., for maintenance and repair in the early spring time. 3. ��� ��� I believe that an efficient mining man should be appointed as Mining and Machinery Inspector in each of the Districts for the frequent inspection of mines. 4. I believe that one more Supreme Court Judge should be appointed with headquarters in West Kootenay; [that the Small Debts Courts should be enabled'to try any action to recover wages, to garnishee same before judgment, and rapid execution to follow judgment, as there is, in most cases, no defence in such actions. 5. I believe that the people should petition the Government to pass a labor law governing all the industrial classes, with penal and arbitrary clauses and power to incorporate as separate bodies representing carpenters, mechanics, miners and all other trades, so that each organized body would be the representative of the trade practised by its members. I say petition, for such an Act, for it is my firm opinion that all important measures, such as this should primarily emanate from the people by petition. 0 6. I believe the eight-hour law should stand as it is in the interest of peace and prosperity and that the general labor law should extend it to men and women of all trades; also that the hours of store attendants should be shortened. 7. I believe in the adoption of the principle of the Government owning the railways, in so far as the circumstances of the Province will permit. S. I believe that, the Mineral Act should not be touched, except to cut out the contradictory sections and to authorize Mining Recorders, after sixtv davs' notice, to sell delinquent co-owners' interests for non-payment of their proportion of assessment work, on the same plan as partners, in Sec. 67 of the Mineral Act. Applications for Crown Grants should be advertised separately and not in bunches. 9. I believe the Land Act should be amended to allow persons to purchase small areas of land for market gardening for the raising of vegetables, small fruits, etc., for home consumption while fresh. ,'.'.' 10. I believe that the Education Act should be amended to enable cities to educate their own children and have an opportunity to enter into competition with each other for the employment of the best imparters of knowledge for general and technical schools, and thus relieve the Provinceof much expense. n. 1 believe that Cottage Hospitals and well-trained medical men should be liberally aided by the Government in thinly populated districts. 12. I believe the best advertisement the Province could have is to show the world a prosperous, progressive community, and a heavy export list published weekly by each paper under official authority would speak for itself. 13. I believe the influx of Chinese and Japanese subjects into this country to be a distinct detriment to our future welfare, but it can only be dealt with by this Province through the Dominion and Imperial Governments; this matter should have the immediate attention of the new House, and steps taken to obtain Dominion Legislation with the assistance of the Imperial Authorities, whose united efforts would be the consolidation of the British Empire for the benefit of British subjects. 14. I believe au efficient and permanent Civil Service should be maintained by special act in this Province. In conclusion I ask all electors who believe in my political creed to give me their voles and influence on Ihe dav of election. JOHN KEEN, KASLO, B. C STABILITY OF MINING LAWS. EQUAL RIGHTS AND EIGHT HOURS O FOR ALL W*^ OPENING OF COMMUNICATION BV TRAILS AND WAGON ROADS IT "If you plea.se, sir," said the! ** *Of the mateless liver-pax young- ia-dy. tumidly, as the ex-: roared the exchange editor. ������There change editor handed her a chair, j you get it. That finishes the second ���I have composed a. few verses or ! so as to match the first. It corn- partially composed them, and I j bines the fashions with poetry, and have thought you might help me ��� carries the idea, right home to the finish them and then print them." j fireside. If I only had your ability Site was a. handsome creature. : in starting a verse, with my genius with beautiful blue eyes, and a : in winding it up I'd quit the shears crowning glory as yellow as golden-1 and open up in the poetry-business rods. There was an expectant look ! tomorrow. ���This is the fourth ' "The merrv milkmaid's sombre lo Ins spine, verse : on her face, a hopefulness that ap hink so '?" asked the fair pealed to the holiest emotions : and | young lady. **It don't, strike me the exchange editor made up his ; as keeping* up the-theme. " mind not to crush the longing of; * 'You don't want to. You want that pure heart, if he never struck j to break the theme here and there, another lick. ��� The reader likes it better. Oh. yes. ������May I show you the poetry ?" ! Where you keep up the theme it continued the ripe red mouth, 'gets monotonous.r" ������Vou will see that 1 could'nt get j "Perhaps that's so." rejoined the the last lines of the verses : and if' beauty, brightening up. "I didn't you would be so kind as to help-think of that. Now I will read the me���" ; third verse : Help her! Though he had never | '"How sadly droopr; the dying* day, Reechos from the rocks, As silently she trips along-���' " "* "With holes in both her socks." bv Jove!" cried the exchange ed- itor. "You see���" "Oh. no. no !" remonstrated the blushing maiden. "Not that." "Certainly." protested the ex- cha.nge editor, warming' up. "Nine up an actual existence with a. veil of genuine poetry over it. I think that's the best idea- we've struck vet.'' it touches up the milkmaid, and by could, followed by Poll, who describing her condition shows her 'screamed "Shoo!" at every step, to be a. child of the very nature you j A few days later. Poll extended are showing up." her morning walk into the chicken "I don't seem to look at it as you " I think you are right, said the; yard. Here, with her usual cur- do. but of course you are the best sweet angel. I'll tell pa. where hejiosity. she went peering into every judge. .Pa thought I ought to say: j )vjl* wrong. This is the way the | corner till she came to the, I old hen on her nest. The " 'As silently she trips along In Autumn's yellow tracks.' fifth verse runs : 'And, close behind, the farmer's bov ��� lu'n inad(' a' <iivt' 1'��1' *>"1,'s V---1 low- Trills forth his simple-lines ' i head, but missed it. Roll, thinking wouldn't that do?" And slips behind the maiden coy���" j discretion 'the better part of valor. "Do! Just look at ' it. Does "-And splits his pantaloons': i turned to run. the hen. with wings 'tracks' rhyme to -rocks'? Nol in I done if myself : know just exaeth'j uicl<1 sl"'t'a(1- ''"How ' ' C(l Cl( >se after. to four she's got 'em : and you give I this paper it don't. Besides, when -how it is. Why. bless your heart. fidelity to fact, with a wealth of poetical expression. The worst of poetry generally is you can't take things just as they are. It a.int like prose. But here we've busted all the established notions and put As night springs from the glen, And morning twillight seems to say��� he old man s drunk again even read a- line of poetry, the exchange editor felt the spirit, of the divine art Hood his soul, as he yielded to the bewildering music. Help her! Well, he should smile. , would'nt do, would it?" asked the **The first verse runs like this." she went on. taking courage from his eyes ; " 'How softly sweet the autumn air The dying woodland fills And Nature turns from restless care'" ������To anti-bilious pills' !" added the exchange editor, with a jerk. "Just tlie thing. It rhymes, and it's so. You lake anybody now. All (he people you meet are���" "1 suppose voll know best." interrupted (he younggirl. "I had'nt- thought of it in-lhai way. bul you; 'Why did I shove my topper?" have a. belter idea of such (hiugs. Thai's just what twilight would Now (he second verse is more like!ihihk of lirsl. yon know. Oh. this: , don'1 be afraid: 1 hat"- just im mense. ������Well. I'll leave it to you." said the glorious girl, with a smile lhal pinned 1 he exchange editor's heart you say 'tracks' and 'rocks' you jyou- give the impression of some fellow J Snip. snip. snip. Paste, pa.ste. heaving things at another fellow I paste. But it is with a. saddened who's scratching for safety. 'Socks:' ��� heart thai he snips and pastes on the other hand, rhymes with the janiong his exchanges now. The 'rocks' and beautifies them, while .beautiful vision (hat for a moment ... : . -~- jdawned upon him has left but the recollection in his heart of one sun- bearn in life, quenched by the .shower of tears with which she denounced him as a "nasty brute" and wenl out from him forever. exchange editor. "Somebody else wrote that, and we might be accused of phtgarism. We must have this thing original. Suppose we say. now suppose we say. * Why did I spout my Ben ?' " "Is that, new?" inquired the sweet, rosy lips. "At least. I never heard it before. I don't know what it means." "N ���? ' Deed it's new. -Ben' is the lYesbyterian name for overcoat, and 'spout' means to hook. 'Why did 1 spout my Ben?" means. MINE MANAGERS��� BUSINESS M EN- MERCHANTS��� 'The dove-eyed k inc. upon the moor Look tender, meek and sad, \Vhile from the valley conies the roa i* We would call your attention to the new and exceedingly large and well-selected stock of Commercial Stationery just placed in stock at THE I.EDGE office ��� the very best ever brought into the Slocan. Let us show you samples, and quote prices. Till-: LKDGK ollice is up-to-date���is better prepared now to turn out good w< 'ik thiu: ever. A CO U�� I'AKKOT STORY. Our next door neighbor, writes a correspondent, owns an amusing parrot which is always getting into mischief, bul usually gets out again without much (rouble to herself. When she has done anything for which she knows she ought to be punished, she holds her head to one side, and eyeing her mistress. says in a sing-song lone: ������Pollv is a good girl." until she sees her mistress smile: (hen she Haps her i wings and cries out : ������ Hurrah ! I Poor Roily is a -jood girl !" She j has been allowed logo i'ree in (he ! garden, where she promenades baek 'and I'orih on tin- walks, sunning i hersel f. and w.*i rning off all iu- I i ruders. I <>!le ii)-- ii*l 1 ��� ii*.: a hen -| r;( \ i-i 1 , ,ti; of the chick on \;iri| ;i!n! v. us 1 p; h*i! v picking up her break I'.-e-l. when 1 Poll marched up 1 o h.-r. and .-ailed join "Shoo!" in her shrill \ oh*e. [ The poor hen ret rented l<> her own qminors, running as fast as -he As she ran. Poll screamed in her shrillest tones. **0 Lord! O Lord!'" A member of the family who had witnessed the performance, thought it time to interfere in Boll's behalf, as the angry hen was gaining on her. He ran out. and stooping down held out his hand. Poll lost no time in traveling up lo his shoulder. Then, from her hii>*h vantage-grot 1 ud. she turned, and. looking down on her foe. screamed: ���'Hello there! shoo!" The frightened hen relumed lo her nest as rapidly as she had come. ��� Ashland Item. AiuU Hull! Tli.'it Way. A Canadian editor, being asked if he had ever seen a bald headed woman, replied: No, he never did. Nor had he ever een a woman waltzing" around town in her shirt, sleeves, with a cigar between her teeth. We have never seen a woman goa-lishing with a bottle, in her hip pocket, sit on (he damp ground all the day and then go home drunk at night Nor have we ever seen a woman yank off her coat-and swear she could lick anv man in town. God bless her! she. ain't 1 hi iii t hat. way. ! o d ,a 1 ��� <-::;' 1 '������! 1 r ��� >*, lake Idea ri>. mat e "I --���'da . ��� 'I!---! ia i, "111 ii*r: ; ir;i rli.ui ;i !(��� i 11 I'oiasn. in..- li.. ���: .man-: --van i-'-- ni I iot ;i ->: oin . --A., eiiiii-i s: .-ii verizr aiai mix: iie.-it i i,e dull !>it in ,1 ii-j l,t Hii-riv red and apply pn.vrr -.������...u.'i. !<��� inok srra v: con I in \v;i ter ���Y THE LEDOE. NEW DEJSVEK, ii.C, MAY 24, 1900. Seventh Yeak Mi \: T XT C^T O FT (J ( "*l *T3*P* *����� i Hihernia io applv on. 2���Red Lyon. Mayflower, 1 IM Al "U HbUU 1-1U 2D | B1.|(.k Hawki. Fri;e (.u!d< Suill.i5<.i 3_L(J3t HoVi _ i Wayside." work mi Lost Hoy f> apply on; Gold i'he following is a complete list of the ', i-ri-m-e. o-nid Kin^.work onjGold Prince to apply mining transactions recorded curing tbe ; mi. c>0]u yueen, work on Gold Prince t<> apply j any change in his pockets, by giving- it to the right. person he could get into the show at cut rates. They began to crowd around hiin, tendering varied ���week in the several mining divisions oi ;,-���,. wiiitu KuLi.it. Shepnard star, Florence \v, ! amount'- or 'ho-h-v from one cent up to the Slocan. Those of New Denve- were I M.,,*tiu B. Litl,e j���i���,me, lilcd, JosietoMay is, j.,-_ He accented" all tenders. He told aa lOllOWS :��� 1001. Onix to June (i,li.oa.Jusie work toupplv on: I * location*. io&K to Jur\:i!.UM��. Josiework to apply on: ! tluilu _lll;lt he would have to put 111 one May 11���-New Ontario, Ten Mile c-k. W li Mrtui. ', iri-ei*mont to .lune <;. i!-'i3, Josie work To apply on: . 'it a time, lie did: . ���' "he man inside ������Ion. 1 Humboldt to .lunei", i;��i'��, Josie work to apply j was waiting f-,r them -Just as soon as i on. 1-W���uder to An-ust iii, 1801, Silver Ki��K \ ., ))1.l(.k j,,,.^ \yOU*(l appear uu- ' lo Sept :*<', liiOl, Wonder work to apply on; Violet I , T- ... ...-,. , ixr.....���,.._ u .....,...i., i <ier 14���Stanley. Wil.��on ck. Jus Lind. Alva Fraction. Carpenter ek R NV Laii-j-ill. 17- Pinto Fraction, near' NVw Denver. (.' S i Fraction to May !��, l!o]. Wonder work lo apply . . , , . ���Raslidale. j on; Primrose, Silver Soray. a-Lake View, May, j the rust ui Lie person owning* it inside Blossom, Kuliy Fraction, sui-"ey: Iron Queen, i and shove hiiil out Ol" the Other side of the. canvas he would grab it, drag IS���Holes Fraction. Galena Farm. M Nidi vjll. -.'1-Altona, Ten Mile ck, G McDonnell, i Chief Fraction, Ten Mil:. ck, S A Mc-Donncii. j to apply on; Syrce.n. Doulilc *-*i nndarc1. Anna, lies.-* Fraction, near Queen Bess. T W. G Scott. | Northern Light. Horseshoe, Winner. K-Carmel, ' g'<"��t the i survey; Iron Kii.t,', survey; enamel. Souu-er, t*Kl narrovv connection. From here, it i Windsor, Kozenteal, Jessie M, work on Republic . ��� was a long way around to the man who loney. If one. of the dupes The Government Reserve Dance cost you ooooo TKANSKKRS. work on Karolhie; Bristol. Brandon, Balmoral, j found his way hack, which was UUCer- ��..., -,..���. u-,.-t Fr-eti,,,, > Tii,-rtHiirti-iiilvrorkonBnu,rt"; htehlw,ir-w':"'k ��" B'";U1'10"''! tain, and wanted his monev'returned, M.ij ��~>Un \\e.,t tr.ictlun, ,. 1 ho* Hurtc.au , Ani Seattle. Chiel". work on May Blossom:!. ��� . . * to a nailer, April u*��� m. j mmw work rm Muv 'BlosS(1I11. Hl.itiBll Thun,ler. ! hc was pnunptly shoved under tne CHll- Frunk I-Y^H-l. J"-Brandon to CM Daly. ! Helena, work on Mav Blossom. '.'-Elko, Koot- j vas again and just as promptly kicked lo-Evelyn, agreement, J W.Kyte. W Brown, | enay lfcjllo; lfl_Ina. E'in���re38. n-Samp*on,T F j oitt Oil the Other side. It was a kind of Triisk, T F Tra.sk Xo 2, McCormick, Gold Cup. ' Rn endless chain. work oil McCormick; Ked Rock, Thornton Frederick, Erie. Golden Eag'le, work on Fred- I i crick, Erie; Duke of Richmond, work on Fred-| Stay in ?' crick. Erie. I*.'���Sunset. Vancouver. 14���New Brunswick. Belfast, Matf^ie, Nninher Two, Col- ville, Simcoe, Ho|>e, Summit, Emai*el. Emerald Fraction; Pi-Daily, Red Top Fraction, American Eaidt- Fraelioii, Gypsy Queen,'Enterprise. Morn- "Wcil1, old Adam Fore-paugh was ahout, and if he saw an unusual inuii- 1 her of negroes in the tent he : would at once have made the rounds to im* Glory, Maple Leaf. Juno; ni-Clift, Little Joe. Iind where they were getting* in. That Annie Morton to Ward McDonald, May *i. Power of attorney. F \V Wri-ht to Mat Mat- - I wo-'* oi] .la'ouitn^h, i\-.-u iiuiA, a ii.jw.i.vh, , ,,,,��� ,. , , , , , , .-Jon, Feii ���.'*.'. I r._......:.... ..-....-,. ,...,.,1.17 i i, .... i,v,.,i.!" ^ hy diilu t ��� the two men let ithem Emerald, J. K McCn-e^or to Mar, Matson.May 1. Uuliy. J, A Fiitniifan to Mat Matson, \pril 111. 11 -Rainnet*. LaKoy. Atlin Fraction. |{. George White to A 11 Alu-rcromble, April 2>i. H ���Power of attorney, Xorinau McMillan Pi A D MeGillivry, Xov -.it. i K 1), J!-].1* Xi-clectiid. X McMillan to .1 (.; Harris. la-lhilie, Emerald '.,. Mat Mat son to L A Tlnu-stoii, May 11. . Fairy Queen, J; Mirliitran, all, same to .same. y '��� I ii -MontaCarlo, ',, Samuel Marshall to W B : minute or two passed and we saw two I'airy Queen, 1, Coiipe.r Kini4, all, F \V Wrudit i ,, ,, ,^ , ,, ,.:,i. ,, ���.>,���, �����,,.. ,,, . - t,.i i-H,,,,,,,,,,',,' Dodd. 1- J 1);,\kUo.i.-- ,. Mh\p., canvasuieu rnnn na* for hfe around the <���" L-A 1 Illusion. May II. Taylor. .'��� Samuel Marshall lo Win B Dodd, F : , . . . .- ... Fairy Queen,}, Ocean Queen, all, Emily Swan I f IJa"vitl8; ,', M.a, v, .hippodrome track With an angry, xoh A Thurston. May ii. I ' i.v-i. XL; V'*ilow Jacket; Little Joe; I X L ] yelling* crowd of negroes after them. Pi-Marion, Merriu.ae,],,-!,', limited interest, �� I Fl,lt,lilin, .,���, K Ul,u|i���v r,��� ,;���),��� Weston Falls. j The audience enioved it immensely. W Kin-,' to Jus Cunningham Und B Goodwin, i . .,���.,,,,���,. , ,-,a,i/���������,,,.,.,, ;t \iH \Uu \st-lov -tm , , -. ' \ e-i , li���MulUfrun.1. Gold Queen. .,-, Mis Ann Afttie*. Thought it was part ot the show Iosmsi Halt TO-NIGHT. oo Alum, Black Bear. Ioiia. Ella B, Annie Fraction: 17-Juliile'-*. Jvunhoe, Nancy Jane, Itivisr- side, N'ip and Tuck, Tarantula; IS-Big-Dulutli, Mavheo, TiKer Fraction. wtis why. The show was ahout half over that night when an uneaillily racket started at. the connection. A Jan Hi. rfuo. Ill���Condore, \, John Francis to J Doeksteader, March 29, S-V). 2\���Alice Murphy, Dooley, J, VH Behne to H. Hewer, Dec 15. A.SSKSSMKN.TS. May ;i���Bodic, Dora; 10���Anacortei, Xew Market,* 11���-Spray, Sli^o Fraction. Wall a re, Home Run, Irei-iioU. Rosemarie, Evelyn; li��� Dayton, Tomato, Ruelicii. Bow-K'uot, Allvina; U��� Monitor Fraction, Jessie, Cube Lode, Florence; Hi���DetiverCIiief; 17���Manitoba, . Hostse.k Xo 1, Alberta, New Caledonia; 18���L H,Si!verile, Silver Ridse, Billy D. Silvorite Fraction, Ground Squirrel, Golden Buston; 19���Snow. Flake. Alberta: 21���Keystone, Frank Fraction, Prcutic-e Boy, Dandy Fraction. SLOCAN CITY DIVISION. nyne. K A LOCATIONS. May -.'���Stanwood, Slocan river, Geo Sheliion, same, Mrs Jennie Payne. 8���Miusiiif.' Link Fraction, Lemon ck Bradshaw. Jimilio, sume, G Xiehol. Canadian Star, re! Red Wins. R A Bradshaw. Red Wins,', rel Canadian Star, T MeNish. Little BOh.-, Ten Mile, M Davies. 9���Arlington Nol Fraction, Springer ck, J F Oolloin. Stepbanite Fraction, same., W F DtiBois, 11-White Eaj,'!e, n f Lemon ck. D Xiehol. Ohiselhurst. south of town, A. W Hohba. A.SPESS1IKXTR. April TO��� Duiclunan, Dwight, Violet, Corydon, Colon, Emily Bird. May 3-Armiston, Gypsy Lass, <")tis, Leon. "-White Stinrrow. Daylight, Canadian Boy. 8-"West-mount No 2, Southmont, Eiiulinout Portland. 9-Stanilard No :i, Morning- .Slur No'!. 1-J-T win Sister Xo lands, Ciiicci) of the Hills, Black Hussar, Golden Be.lt, Climax. CKRTIKICiVTK OK lMI'KOVKMKXTS. April 30���United Empire.. TKAXSKKUS. April 3d���Weymouth Mi, C K Smitherinyale to J L Farwii^. May 3-Seattle i,-folni Jai vis io <;;co E \Vein- &nt.. May 9���Katie 1-in. C T Gormli-y to T Madden. Diadem, Century, First Century, Industry, Snowflake, Lake City. Queen City.Slaynor, Kal- aTiiazoo, Dandy, Carby,SI Charles, Last Chance, Michigan, Franklin, Georgia, anil Northern, A in each, Frank Provost Lo Percy Dickenson, 12���Grantham 1 ii, R Bradshaw to J Fleishman and Florence h Melnm-s. We to J,,seph Astley Sam May 2 j knew different. A lot of us jumped'" in Monarch..-. W m .1 Coldwcll to J J Hawkins, l ,,',,, ,., %,,, Wavl- j and neaded the negroes oti. I hat gave ls���iciuffson i, Green back Mi, J R Uea to Stan- I the, caiivasiuen time to escape. After ley o Rea.Oct.-J3,1899. | we |e;ii*ued the cause of it we regretted Goodeiioii"h Fraction M>, H W Fi-ruuson Pol- j . . ^ ��.T , , , uimuuiiwi x ' : ' ������ " our interierence,. We lost two prouns- lok toG RCMiirtin, AiiKl. 189'.). ;. .. ' , ��� ,,.v I ing canvasmeii at Lexington.' ��� Ihtts- CKrail-lOATKS Ob- IMl'KOVKMKXrS. ,v May 4���Freeinont, C & K., Hninbnldt, Onix,. -"��� '" ; J'osie: o-Lomrsley; li'i-Empress; 17-lviuilioe. i NELSON at IN ING DIVISION". LOCATIONS. May 1���Kaslo, iiivided between Birsand liover ck, John Olson. Riiilnfc, Fractional. WildMor.se ck, Walter J. Hughes, John Morri.i:'ean. Ivory Kinir, near Yniir, E Peters, A W" Biiwn May i���Lake Side, Copper mt, near Erie. Wil Ham Riley, Thomas Payne. Spring- riill,same, samii. Noonday, near Vinir, A E Rand. Rossland, 8 miles west Nelson, Henry Rippen. May 3���Greenwood -'Fractional,), Eayle ck,.Inn Blomberf"*. Snow Drop, Shee]) ck, near'Salmo, William Mc-Arthur. May 5���Majestic, Toad int., near Hall sidiuu-. D A Macdonald. Ruben, Salmon River, near Vmir. relocation of the "Ben Bur", Rice Kello-. May 7��� Biuitoii. Salmon rive;-, George Walker. Eveniiiff Star. Peini d'Oreilly river, t; A Peterson. Iron Kill!*-, Salmon river. (.! A Peterson. TllANSFEKS. j .May 1���Corona, Martin Anderson to John W ] Moore..:*?1,1100. March 1. I Elk and Monarch. M Keah-y and M C lion- j iiShan to Bruce. White. -jIO.ikk), May K.^uO down j .-sl.uixi'ii iiios ond .--8,.son 1. yr. j May -2���Eldorado, Carmmita Ghilhuanna, Frank Grantham to Wither Rukk, April 26. Lucky Bill, Diamond Hill, Blue Bird, Bankers Panic, Wm B Townsend to the Marguerita Gold Mining & SiiieltinK* Co of Rossland, April 17. May 8���Hull' Eagle \, Josh Collins to H C Brouii-her, -?25u, April 18. Greenwood (Fractional), John Bloinberg- to Oscar Johnson and Jous R Swedlierif. each J- interest, May 3. ��� ��� Ladysmith, J 0 Clark to Ole Skastebo, T O Skatbo and 0 Lund, April 21. Bnller, W ll Lambert Pi Ole Skattebo, TO Skatbo and O .unci. April 21. May 4-Royal Arcanum 1-6, J C Hull' to W R Braden, Oct-.'a. IS'.i'.i. Peacock i, Ja-sCranley to L Gobey SSO Xo 4, i, \V B Pollard to A B Gray, Oct sio, 189;). No 5, .J. E S Glasford to A B Gray, Oct i'l, 1801). Monte Carlo, J, Samuel Marshal) to Wm John Marshall, ��75. May 5��� Violet (Fractional), 1, 11. Mc*Alpine to Franz Untried, May 8. May 8���Spokane Dr.-am. ', Alfred Larson to William B Dodd & Frederick J Davidson, -?l,noO. Suttro, all. HS Sinkan to RobtAtr-Cormiek. May 7. Ctil't, i, Ben Miller to Wm Moore. May !)���Royal Arcanum, 1-6, TM Bo.i* lr.isii lo A W'hitlier, May 2. Annie May, \, Solomon Johns to William, G Robinson. May 11���Agreement for sale between Mutt Nelson. .. wan Xeiison, John Holm. Angus Johnson and L L M..-rri Meld and Fred Burnett for 3tlie Toronto, Vikinir Fraction. Maggie anil Champion Minivifj Co. May 5. Nightingale h, J no Olsen lo W F Hull, May IC Magpie, all, Edward T H Shnkins, R S Lennle to Hamilton George Neeland, April 21. May 12���Taylor, .;.. Sidney S.Taylor to Samuel Marshall. May "l-l���Wiimsor, all, J M Best to Henry W Wurst, April lti. Sinclair, all, Donald MeFadden to Henry W Wurst, April ll). Chisholm, aM, Geo W Cliishohn to Henry W Wurst. April20. TTK ClltC ITS. IN THE SOUTH. THE DEBUTAiN f��. Wot yet havs the dark years touched her With tho edge of their eiis!i--ing slnule. Bhe has grown like a flower in the sunlight This slender slip of a maid, Who stands in tho wing of hor mother And smiles as wo greet her, dear As the bud half blown, as tho dawning ray. Onr pride in this latest year. We wish her joys unnumbered, We hope for her all things bright, That only the best may reach her And never the worst -tf?ri:*;ht ; That her own may swif.ly iind her And her life be brimmed with cheer As she stands to face her fmure Iii the morn of this latest year. But only One above us May cast the horoscope Of this sweet- daughu-r waiting For the doors of i'uie- to ope. Her steps may load llnv.'gh ���.'.������.*e:,t3, Through pathways.hUm,;> and ureal Or over desolate mountains. Through many a lonesome yefr. Yet as we wate', her st.-'ndiug, Pure as a v..-.-.al's dream, Her eyes are as an ans--l's. And we may safely r'eem The sweet maid sure of finding A life of bliss and cheer. And wistfully we Erect- her. Our pride, this latest year. ���Ha. -.er'a Bazar. Empress I��ugeuie's t*r��yfn!negB. Some time ago t.ho Empress Eugenie was a capital hand at whiling away her own and other people's time whet) residing at obs-'eure watering places where the accustomed resources of royal gtiiety were at fault. One game that she inventod, and which gave much delight, was this: A costly jewel was placed upon a saucer and covered with an inverted teacup; a lady then tossed them to n gentleman seated on tho oppusito side of the room, find if he caught tlie flying utensils with such a steady hand that tho jewel wjib not displaced from under the cup tho gem be- oame tho property of the lady. Of course the gallant who wtis to ''catch" felt an intense solicitude, inasmuch as the prize for the lady which his adroitness might gain or his awkwardness lose had a vaiuo which rendered its possession exceedingly desirable and made its loss acutely felt It Is said that the emperor, was tho best "oatcher" of thorn all, and when ho was present the game was played with an enthusiasm which would rival that ofa thickly populated nursery.���New York Lodger. Im)i: Sai.i:, Chbai'.���(.'ottaye and two corner lots, on Sixth street Easy tonus. Aniilv at��� Ludge ollice. Over (-"00,000 pounds of tea is consumed in Ei)i>'iand dailv. Fun Saij.;.���A six-roomed plastered house in New Denver. Apply at Tin-; Li'.iMiio office. ��-ou. *��,*��. x rffcu-a al.: *.*iu^;t.s-)��*��aia��i un-K ubuiirhi nuniBtwtc����nrEa n "In the North," said the old circus man to a reporter, "tlie desire to t��*et ittto the tent by crawlin��* under the canvas is confined to the small hoy. But in the South the entire colored population conies to the. "-round and hangs around day and' night looking for an opportunity to get in free. And to crawl under the canvas .seems to them to he the easiest way. Men and women train p around and around the tent look-, GARDEN AND FLOWER Kill; IT AND ORNAMENTAL , ���.. ^ Hollies, Roses, Rhododendrons, Shrubs, Bee Hives and Agricultural Implements. New 80-page catalogue Bedding Out Plants. M. J. HENRY, 30ui'i Westminster Road. Vancouver, H. C. JOHN WILLIAMS Dealer in IMPORT -D AWD DOMESTIC CIGARS AN"'TOBACOOES, PIPES, &.C.- Van Camp Lunch Goods, Confectionery and Fruit. Nelson Employment Agency Contracts taken for Diamond Core Drillins-. IIKhl" OK ALL KINDS FURNISHED. J. H. LOVE. BATHS IN CONNECTION. Newmarket Block. New Denver RELIABLE ASSAYS rmlil .< .-,() I Gold a-nil Silver..* ,7*"i bend jn I G'ild,silv'r, ooini'i- l./iv Samples l>.v mail receive ]irom]il attention. Rich Ores and Bullion Bought, l.ti!) "1'ith St., Denver. (Jolo. J. W. BALMA1N CIVIL JOXtJiVBKK, AltOHiTIXr*'. T5TC. T. O. Box lid. SANDON. B. C. Tinsmith and Plumber Manufacturer of Galvanized A ir-Pipe. Powder- Tli.iwei-s, Camp Stoves and nil kinds of Sheet Metal Work. Established LS!i.-">. IZv* 5 i. Ociliul Sandon, B. C. Notary Public Insurance* Mining Broker Nelson chool of nsiness Short Hand and Typewriting Second Term now open Till-' BUDGKT Si'STKM of Mook-kecpiiifi and Husiiiess is unrivalled hv any known method of Oflice. Practice.' WK THACH-IT 'I'Ol'CH 'I'V1*KWRITING Rives one-quarter liiuher r.te of speed than tin- anticuialed SiK-lil System. WK TEACH IT STKNOG'KAI'IIV mnl PROOFREADING com- hined for tliosi desirous of training for newspaper work. For terms and particulais ap|ily tn, KATTRAY & MKRK1LL. Vietoria Block, Nelson. B. C. BRICK l-"i)R SALK. .JOHN GOETTSCKK, N.'CW DKNVER. The Miners Exchange Tin; only liist.-cl.-ts.s hotel in Three Forks Home Oookinv;,-ui(l best of .���iccoiiiniodatiun.-'.. Hugh Niven, Prop. The Enterprise -O.OXei9 Aylwin This hotel is near the. Enterprise, on Ten Mile creek, mid convenient to travelers to and from Camp Manaiie.ld and Smuggler mine. G-eorgc Aylwin. HEWER & CROFT, HaiiTing* and Packing- to Mines, 'and general local business. WOOD AND COAL FOR SALE i iP** New )��eiiv<-r, i5 ,j\.[��L. GRIMMETT, L.L.B. BARRISTER, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. Sandon, B. C. Branch office at New Denver every Saturday. TI N AM) GAIA'AMZH!) KOOKING A sri-'ciAi/rY. i in**- for au unguarded point. We al- ���\ir Castle, sin- i.-.-.-ip mi. c Wilson, n Han- ways put extra fJtuvasmen on wateli man. Home. Stakr, Elk i-k, n in 'filey. Tli--s P.-ivn... Kssii-. (11 a ha in ck. 'A' A ���( '-.n, ���', 1. ..iiwirid ck, Annii- H.-illi-r. tri'n f'litniiw d <*k, .1.-. d. Gir.i ���d <*k, -lay Willi..hii-. !-.. Wm II PI,.;..I,,-., ti'iu.-i I . iii-.-ii- Eri,.. (; i; -id.- r.ni.'li ���I..I, 1 ' l.'. ililll-iili. II n-ry "i i l.'oliin,,,! "��l ��� -111 ill _; nil , .li.ln; -1 II -��� l-l.-r. ������! niiiii-, .liilm Sioi h. : M..I-..1I. ���! V WeP ���h. ! !.M ; i-k. .in mi-.-* \V '.���**<';t Hell I'niuli. trih I May s l,.,s ,\ liLj- Iltilihai'.l. m I,inn's, trii. ' n' mack 1 >��� i:ii May '.i--K'i-ys;.,.,. ! L.idd. t'1'..wii II.-ni. :������-. Mili.<. Iliv. i-id- . ��� - W Cl-M-ki-l-.l I"!- -:. ������ * M;iy In Kli.t.dyk.-. vravi--', I-'ilw.ird i- '.'." (II- ������ S -ill.- I,;. -������ ;:;. Sw.��� i��� iii��� I., -:. ii;.-, i.;- Aja a - lira;' W iii*. ���'���'���' May 11 -X- !-.;,. - ��� May |.*. Mn> (1 '.-.-��� '. Prank l.'.il". (iiilili-n .'-iiii.-..;. \x.'li >l.-'-.-iii, ijivi.li- !������ -��� ��� ftusf SVI-,,1- I'lilillllll-.- |-|:ll;i:i-' l: p: i...Id. ii I-.'���, i-r. 1>|.- of km. -..n;.-. I: ..!��� rick Mel I. Silver (^i n. '!'���. ..I iii:. W R K Howie- 17-1 "eh. Kok.-i:,-- i k. Mnnlock Mcl.,..,i|. Oi-in. ilal: --k,-:-.-:... al,'..'; ������!" t! Alia, .May. H Price Terry, same, ;-.-! -���! ih" ������Terry." Dllll'|cc. Vest l)f Ni-l-.i*.. -J !,!l.i!I.LT Stuck-, V Maid of Erin, !..-iw.-.-n Iiear .ind Sproulc ' cks, Win Mi'l'J-inn---*-". \ Kinpire, Dec;- i'lrk.lie.i A -I ihii-,011. , Hii'/.til. :'��������� mile-J me-tli D.-cr Park. Charles Shiin- 11011. .J I> (i'MIO. I 13 -Hlack i"ii-.l. I"..:; .n-.v >-><1 ck. .Ja.me.-i Kickr-y. j .���.-.j!-:s-mi-:\is. i Personal attention ��**iven In all orders. Kstimates trivcn. 'Moderate prices. Mailorders Promptly attended to. Shop at present near Sandon Sau-inills. Escaped the i-wali-r l-k, Uoliert I.ee. -.;: liover an.I Dird c| ;. :���' Holland. ���I, nit, T II W.'lli.-nii-oii, Mav 1- hi.i. 'tiyh.-i-iii.i Ki-iioi .ii, Hercules, work on !!.*. I) 'r:ii ' ���ii'. S! Pet,.,-. ���.vurk on i. '��� when we <>*r> to the south with our show. ! I have witnessed more titan oneaiuus- ' ing iind cxeitiiii;* incident oTowiii^'-out ' id" rliis dcsiri^ of the, nei**ro to . i;*ei into i ilic circus, tent without lmyiny: ;t tiekel Tiiey ^o literally circtis-imul when the slinw muie.!-* lo tnwii, and they won't do a 1,-tji ni' work until it leaves. One re;i- ���-iin wii\- thoy don't step u]i to the tiekel wa-'-iiii and iiitnd out llieir coin is Unit tln-v in:ver liiive iiny. Then* may he. nliii-i- re.iisi.ns. hut I have never inquired : (/. W. GRIMMETT, I't'.rtiier inlii the -uhject. I **! was with old Adam I'Yirepauii'h one ' fall when ix- Uaik his show to the south I fur an exlend.'d season. Two new can- i viismeii iu'Mrly precipitated a riot for '��� us at. Lexington. Ky. They had ho��n I hii*e(i for the speeial purpose of keeping j negroes from fi'awliii"* under the tent. and they saw fin opportunity to make a little money for t.heniselvws on the side. ; They were ahle to work out their | sciie.inc. t.lii-i)ii<i*h tho fact, that they were. ! invnrahly stittioned for it. rine. waa on ' the. outside at the conn fiction between j the man) tent and tlie mena<;*enc, and j the other on the inside, within the connection "Amon,��* tlie vast crowd of negroes hanging about the show was a large number who had come to town expecting in get in for lo or 2o cents. The outside canvasman ptiet tip Manufacturers of and Shingles We are 'anxious to give our patrons the best the market affords, and have just opened the finest stock of Summer Hats that, has ever been ahown here. You must seen them: all styles and qualities The i inlii and -silver .Icuvlry Diamonds. Kiiius, Silvci- \caiv. Dpiii-al (.iimils and Tools ni" Vim will Iind linn ready for hiisiiic-s two doors above, the old stand. Scud in your Watch Work, and yon will receive Ihe same prompt attention as In-fore. 0. W. GU1MMKTT. Sandon. li. ("'. W. L, Jeffery & Son Workers in Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron. Air Piping and Mining I Work a Specialty I gave out a! that if any one had; Headquarters, New Denver Orders shipped to all parts of the Country. Mill at head of - -Slocan Luke. ��� Fostol'liec address, Kosebery. ',"*V ('iiXSl'I/I'lX!; METALM'KGJST M 1X1 XI' K.NC'IXKKK P.O. Hon -lUI. Portland, Oregon Advises on *..line--, minii'ii*; properties and t-heii workings (."laiins. 1'rospects, and Mini's stocked: Cointianies nrfjan- i/.i'd. Capital furnished. Just .the filing for present wear Bourne Bros., New Denver's busy Merchants. First=class (iHKA "I* DEMAND FOR PROMISING SILVER LEAD PROPERTIES. The Attended by a Specialist Hours 9 to 12:30 and 2 to 5 ouse Nakusp. U a comfortahle hotel for travellers to stop at. Mrs. McDougald. Latest and best method of testing Eyes PATENAUDE BROS. An Expert in each department. Wa toh in ak i-vs, .Jeweler*, and OpHeiuiis. XKIXIN, U.C

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